The paper investigated, by means of thermal analysis measurements, the validity of three different methods for the evaluation of the activation energy of crystallization for surface nucleated glasses belonging to the MgO--CaO-AI203-SiO2 system, separating anorthite and diopside crystals. The values obtained from Kissinger equation of the activation energy for crystallization are comparable with those obtained by other authors for similar glassy systems, 90 to 150 keal/mol. The results of the kinetic analysis using single-crystallization-peak method should be corrected taking into account the dimensionality of crystal growth.