"The ERIC Review" is published three times a year and announces research results, publications, and new programs relevant to each issue's theme topic. This issue explores performance-based assessment via two principal articles: "Performance Assessment" (Lawrence M. Rudner and Carol Boston); and "Alternative Assessment: Implications for Social Studies" (Pat Nickell). In addition, the features include: (1) standards information; (2) a listing of commercial publishers and performance-based assessment; (3) performance-based aspects of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP); (4) an alternative assessment reading list; (5) alternative assessment resource organizations list; and (6) an annotated list of 18 new publications available from the ERIC Clearinghouses. (JLB)