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A book that provides a guide to American thinking on alternative methods of classroom-based evaluation aiming to help foreign and second language educators in planning and carrying out effective evaluations in their classrooms. The book emphasises the valua of classroom-based assessment as a tool for imprving both teaching and learning. Its two major sections are 'Evaluating with Tests' and 'Evaluating without Tests'. In the later section the authors provide practical guidance on how to set up portfolios, conferences, journals, questionnaires, interviews, classroom observations for assessment purposes in a systematic way.