 The project was one that was supported by the provost's office, and it was an opportunity to select some students and to sit down with them, and in my case it was a little bit special because I had one student who had taken several classes from me and kind of knew my style and I had the opportunity to work with a second student who had taken a few classes with me and was going to actually be taking the class that we're going to talk about, and it was an opportunity for me to sit down with the students and to tell them that this is what I was trying to teach you, and this was my rationale for using the assessment tools that I used, and the students could reply with, well, this worked, this didn't work, this was kind of fun, but it was pointless, and really to establish a dialogue between me, the professor, and the students, a collaboration, if you will. The most obvious answer to that question is that the students are kind of the end consumer of the whole thing, and I think it's dangerous when anyone, but in particular somebody involved in a teaching endeavor insulates themselves from their students. Over the long haul I think there's a tendency to maybe drift away from the core of what a class is about or what it is that you're trying to teach, how useful your assessment tools are, and so I think regardless of whether this project happened or not, I have an obligation to the students to say, hey, how did that go? To involve them in the pedagogical process as much as possible. I like to pride myself in the fact that usually I have a good enough relationship with students that they're honest, they know I'm not looking to get my ego stroked, but it was nice to have some distance and say, you know, say whatever you like with the benefit of six months' hindsight on this project or a year on this project. Did this work? What do you remember right now about what you did? And in some cases it was wonderfully rewarding for me because I'd go, yes, it worked, and in other cases the blank stare would tell me all I needed to know. That didn't really do what I wanted it to do.