Search and Rescue: Rebuilding a Test Collection

Evaluation instruments are a frequent adjunct to the fields of education and psychology. This paper recounts the salvaging of a moribund test collection - how the authors went about rebuilding the Western Oregon State College Library test collection. Generating faculty involvement in the enterprise, creating a database to provide bibliographic control and efficient collection maintenance, and distributing responsibility for the collection between two library departments were key elements of the procedure. Appointment of a separate line-item in the library budget for test acquisitions, rapid completion of the project (less than six months), and development of a test database were the most notable results of this project.

Mathletics: Adding Activity to Arithmetic

Teachers are motivated to teach arithmetic. Students are motivated to participate in athletics. Why not teach arithmetic through athletics? With that premise in mind, the intermediate teaching team at the Ackerman Laboratory School on the campus of Eastern Oregon State College et about devising a method of using athletics as a springboard to teaching basic arithmetic skills.

Book Reviews

H. Wayne Morgan. Drugs in America: A Social History, 1800-1980. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1981. Pp. xi, 233. Cloth, $20.00. Review by Roger D. Tate of Somerset Community College. Michael T. Isenberg. War on Film: The American Cinema and World War I, 1914-1941. Rutherford, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1981. Pp. 273. Cloth, $27.50. Review by Loren E. Pennington of Emporia State University. Bertell Ollman and Edward Vernoff, eds. The Left Academy: Marxist Scholarship on American Campuses. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1982. Pp. vii, 290. Paper, $8.95. Review by Robert J. Gentry of The University of Southwestern Louisiana. James West Davidson and Mark Hamilton Lytle, eds. After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Vol. I: Pp. xxxii, 204. Paper, $6.95. Vol. II: Pp. xxxii, 220. Paper, $6.95. Review by Arthur S. Pease of Lebanon School District, Lebanon, N.H. David Birmingham. Central Africa to 1870: Zambezia, Zaire and the South Atlantic. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Pp. vii, 177. Paper, $9.95. Review by Jake W. Spidle of the University of New Mexico. James Kirby Martin and Mark Edward Lender. A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982. Pp. xvi, 240. Paper, $7.95. Review by William L. Shea of the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Bruce A. Rosenberg. The Code of the West. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. Pp. vi, 213. Cloth, $15.00. Review by Michael L. Tate of the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Ralph B. Levering. The Cold War, 1945-1972. Arlington Heights, Illinois: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 1982. Pp. xi, 165. Paper, $6.95. Review by Robert W. Sellen of Georgia State University. Fay D. Metcalf and Matthew T. Downey. Using Local History in the Classroom. Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1982. Pp. x, 284. Cloth, $17.50. Review by Charles Coate of Eastern Oregon State College. William Graebner and Leonard Richards, eds. The American Record: Images of the Nation's Past. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982. Vol. I, Pp. 421. Paper, $9.95. Vol. II, Pp. 449. Paper, $9.95. Review by Frank Nickell of Southeast Missouri State University. Thomas Ladenburg and Christopher Bairstow. Who Killed JFK: Need We Know? Brookline, Massachusetts: Brookline-Cambridge Dissemination Center, 1978. Pp. 31. Paper, $1.10. Review by James F. Marran of New Trier Township High School, Winnetka/ Northfield, Illinois. Thomas Ladenburg. America in Indochina. Brookline, Massachusetts: Brookline-Cambridge Dissemination Center, 1977. Pp. 50. Paper, $1.40. Review by Richard A. Diem of The University of Texas at San Antonio. Thomas J. Schlereth. Artifacts and the American Past. Nashville, Tennessee: American Association for State and Local History, 1980. Pp. vii, 294. Cloth, $13.95. Review by Michael B. Husband of Palisade, Colorado.

Book Reviews

James Hoopes. Oral History: An Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press , 1979. Pp. 155. Cloth, $10.00; paper, $5.00. Review by Arthur A. Hansen of California State University, Fullerton. Robin S. Winks. Western Civilization: A Brief History. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Pp. xv, 484. Paper, $12.95; Raymond F. Betts. Europe in Retrospect: A Brief History of the Past Two Hundred Years. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath and Co., 1979. Pp. xvi, 249. Paper, $5.95. Review by Robert H. Welborn of Clayton Junior College. Barbara Kanner, ed. The Women of England from Anglo-Saxon Times to the Present. Hamden, Connecticut: Shoe Strong Press, Inc., 1979. Pp. 429. Cloth, $25.00. Review by Shirlene Soto of California Polytechnic State University. Peter J. Klassen. Europe in the Reformation. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1979. Pp. vi, 298. Paper, $10.95. Review by Robert O. Lindsay of the University of Montana. Gordon A. Craig. Germany 1866-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980. Pp. 825. Paper, $10.95. Review by Glenn E. Torrey of Emporia State University. M.K. Dziewanowski. A History of Soviet Russia. Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1979. Pp. x, 406. Paper, $12.95. Review by Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson of Northern Essex Community College. James Kirby Martin. In the Course of Human Events: An Interpretive Exploration of the American Revolution. Arlington Heights, Illinois: AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979. Pp. x, 271. Cloth, $11.95, paper, $6.95. Review by Ross W. Beales, Jr. of the College of the Holy Cross. Arthur S. Link. Woodrow Wilson: Revolution, War and Peace. Arlington Heights, Illinois: AHM Publishing Corporation, 1979. Pp. vii, 138. Cloth, $9.95; paper, $5.95. Review by Charles Coate of Eastern Oregon State College. Daniel Snowman. America Since 1920. Exeter, New Hampshire: Heinemann Educational Books, Inc., 1978. Pp. ix, 246. Cloth, $17.95; paper, $6.75. Review by Marvin Reed of Ursinus College.