Berk (professor of biostatistics and measurement and assistant dean for teaching at the School of Nursing, The Johns Hopkins University) shows how humor can be used as a teaching or assessment tool in the classroom and on course Web sites, and discusses the benefits of using humor for improving the classroom atmosphere, student responsiveness, and test performance. He presents evidence-based humor techniques from four categories: forms of humor that rely on in-class delivery; forms that can be inserted in print course materials; print and nonprint forms that be used on a course Web site; and forms of humor that can be incorporated into tests. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)