Chris, I have come back to your reply several times in the past few weeks — you have so much here for me to unpack. I even posted more work I am doing in this area in a new blog post today http://silenceandvoice.com/archives/2009/11/22/assessment-issues-in-online-learning/ where I am pushing the reality of assessments, and how something that often seems so simple is really quite a bit more complicated and involved.

One of these days I will have to see how you handle this in your own classes!

Jeffrey