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fers teacher and students alike to the available material on the public school level. In reality, the bulletin is a practical manual of specific directions that lead the teacher logically through the subject. Beginning with the basic understanding to be developed, suggested objectives for teaching, scope, motivation, and a pre-test, the Bulletin includes a lengthy presentation of the "Facts in the Case," a glossary, "Suggestions for Daily Procedures," supplemental activities and materials, and "Suggestions for Evaluation" that present sample test § for the evaluation of knowledge, attitudes, and study skills. The discussion throughout is eminently practical and should, to a high degree, prove stimulating and helpful to teachers within the field under discussion, and should also serve as a demonstration of how other contemporary problems may be organized for instruction along progressive lines of procedure. It is to be hoped that the Publications Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies will issue similar "source units" for other contemporary problems of national importance.Georgia Teachers College CHESTER MCA. DESTLER "Selected Items for the Testing of Study Skills." Bulletin Number 15 of the National Council for the Social Studies. ., 1940. 72 pp. 50 cents.) This bulletin of the National Council for the Social Studies impinges upon a much neglected field of social studies instruction. As the authors state, instruction in or attempted measurement of student study skills in this field is frequently inadequate or entirely lacking. The feeling among school administrators that the social studies can be taught by teachers with a minimum of academic training has, in rural and small town schools, delivered these subjects all too frequently to the tender mercies of the football coach or parcelled them out among specialists in other fields. More competent teachers who are aware of the necessity of developing study skills in the social studies have frequently been discouraged by the lack of available methods of appraisal. The slow and comparatively recent development of testing methods has delayed an attempt to present to teachers in the field the need for consideration of this vital subject.This pamphlet surveys the history of testing of study skills and indicates the areas still to be explored by investigators, as well as various methods that have been developed. Their conclusion that the most effective way to develop study skills lies through "the medium of the subject matter where these abilities are to be applied" is eminently sane. The short review of the methods of accomplishing this is of great practical by guest on August 11, 2015 http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/ Downloaded from

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