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Dear Suzanne, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Please go ahead and forward my question to the Alliance for Computers in Writing. I hope you will share the results with REED-L. You nicely point out that an assessment can be more or less formal depending on the audience and their needs. Thus we are, in some sense, assessing every time we interact with the students while deans demand more formal assessments. I wonder if we can find ways of assessing the use of technology in humanities education that are: 1. Convincing to our peers and possibly our administrators 2. Relatively cheap and easy to run for the instructor 3. Consistent with our critical traditions On the last point, I would like to think that in the humanities we already have ways of assessing the value of education and research that we could apply to technology rich solutions instead of importing methods from other disciplines. Yours, Geoffrey Rockwell >With your permission as soon as I hear from you I will forward your inquiry to >the Alliance for Computers in Writing list to try to elicit some helpful >information. > >Suzanne S. Webb PhD Program in Rhetoric >[log in to unmask] Dept. of English, Speech, & Foreign Languages >Professor of English Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204