Assessment of The Schools That Travel Collaboration Project is key to its success. Assessment will be ongoing, as it has been since the project's inception, and varied. We have begun with a simple Quicktopic Bulletin Board to provide a forum for informal feedback from all site visitors and users. Throughout the development of this project, we have invited a variety of individuals from both educational and non-education settings to visit and evaluate our site. As a result, we have had the benefit of feedback from students, teachers, administrators, former TEAM members, board of education members and community members.

In order to promote and grow our project, we are planning to reach out to educational organizations. Examples of such organizations are listed above in the WHO section of our proposal. We will also invite them to contribute feedback and aid in our assessment. We may do so in the form of a paper survey or an online survey from a site such as Zoomerang. Our ambitious goal is to create an online feedback submission form that would collect data and "report" it to us via a database. We are expecting to learn the skills necessary to do so during the fall of 2005.

A major function of our project will be expressed in our JOURNEYS section. This area of our site will serve as a showcase of travel learning experiences. These experiences will include those conducted by the collaboration project CREATORS. However, the success of the project depends on the participation of and the collaboration with other groups and individuals. The JOURNEYS section will be empty without this key element. Therefore, the richness of this vital portion of the site will serve as an indicator of our level of success.

Finally, we will attempt to make use of statistical information about our collaboration website. Facts such as how often the site is visited, which pages are accessed most frequently, etc. may provide us with information that we can use to evaluate the use and usefulness of our site.