The obfectives of the private lesson may seldom be stated or carefully thought out, but the are made clear to the student by the teachers concern for specific strengths and weaknesses in the pupil's performance. At the end of each lesson and and, indeed, within the lesson, teacher and student know what the student can do well and what needs attention. Evaluation is consistently made in terms of the music, the present or past assignment, and the students ability. If classroom teachers, and we include ensemble conductors under this label, were to spend the same proportion of time on evaluation. they would soon make sound improvements in methods, materials and approaches. However, the classroom teacher. busy keeping a roomful of pupils actively engaged in music making, tends to forget that activities can be meaningless without knowledge of intent and constant appraisal of results.