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How to Write a Book Review Author(s): L. C. Lovejoy Source: The Accounting Review, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan., 1956), pp. 168-169 Published by: American Accounting Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/242088 Accessed: 06/10/2008 17:47
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Chapter five, devoted toStudent Learning Activities, contains a wealth of information on planning laboratory experiences. Although the contents of this chapter (laboratory work, field or inspection trips, and homework assignments) are not entirely new to the instructor, the Manual does move the inexperienced teacher to the instructor's side of the desk and give some "rhyme and reason" to all these activities. The chapter ontesting contains a variety of information about such things as the different kinds of test questions that can be used, when to test, how long a test should be, and the need for prompt grading of tests. Omitted from this chapter is the biggest problem of all, however: How to determine specifically what to include on a test and how to decide the type of question or test problem that is best for eachparticular item. The chapter on Administration of Instruction seems to be a bit of sermonizing to administrators. A cartoon in the last chapter has a caption: "Time for Reflection ... Take a Look at Yourself." This, in a nutshell, is the message in this chapter.

whet the interest of the new engineering instructor in such items as lesson plans, lecture notes, instruction sheets, prepared classquestions, textbooks, the blackboard, charts, and demonstrations. In all probability the instructor already has gained some knowledge of these items from any past teaching experience or his own course work as a student. The chapter gives more space to the projected aids than to any other single item. A very pertinent statement is found in the chapter on Conducting the Class Session: "The formallecture method of instruction wherein the instructor delivers a prepared lecture and the student takes a passive part as a silent observer or is occupied in feverish notetaking, is usually a boresome and ineffective method of teaching." This same chapter, however, describes only two alternate methods to the lecture-demonstration method: question-answer sessions and group investigations or cooperativesolving of class problems. Each of these latter two techniques is described in one paragraph.

Comments The efforts of the American Society for Engineering Education to produce a Manual for the instructor in engineering are comparable to those which resulted in the Accounting Teacher'sGuide published by the American Accounting Association. [Editor's note: See the AccOUNTING REVIEW, October,...