ABSTRACT
The aim of the particular exercise was to devise techniques for assessment; and the value of these would be maximized if they could later be used by teachers themselves to monitor the development of study skills in their pupils. The specifically devised exercises represented a straightforward attempt to provide pieces of work which might involve common underlying study skills. The scoring systems for each of the three structured exercises used during the first year of the study were devised in more conventional ways than the procedures used for the specially devised study-skill exercises. The structured activities consisted of three tasks. The first task involved the identification of five musical instruments, recorded on a sound tape singly and in various combinations. In the second task, a story was told on tape entirely in sound effects. In the third task the children were required to follow a series of instructions from a pre-recorded tape.
