A handbook for faculty discusses classroom assessment techniques as part of a larger effort to improve teaching and learning in traditional college classrooms. The introduction covers criteria for selecting classroom assessment techniques, organization of the handbook, five guidelines for successfully using assessment techniques, general comments on analyzing data collected, suggestions for analyzing data collected, and general suggestions for using the handbook. Three sections follow: (1) techniques for assessing academic skills and intellectual development (assessing subject matter learning, assessing critical thinking and skill in analysis, and assessing creative thinking and skill in synthesis); (2) techniques for assessing students' self-awareness as learners and self-assessments of learning skills (assessing students' self-awareness as learners and assessing students' self-assessments of learning skills); and (3) techniques for assessing student reactions to teachers and teaching methods, course materials, activities, and assignments (assessing student reactions to teachers and teaching methods, and assessing student reactions to course materials, activities, and assignments). Contains 66 references. (SM)