I would suggest some wording here like, "we acknowledge that teaching with primary sources also often includes affective outcomes, such as conveying excitement..." I also could imagine that you might get push back on the phrasing about these qualities resisting assessment--there is literature on assessing engagement or interest, so that phrasing is not precisely true. I'm not sure what to suggest as an alternative, though I think you could say something about it being challenging to assess especially in a limited time frame. Or perhaps just own that those outcomes aren't what you are dealing with here, because those issues aren't unique to primary source literacy...