My Objections to Outcome [Note the Singular] Assessment

Authors

Joan Digby, LIU PostFollow

Date of this Version

2014

Document Type

Article

Citation

Published in Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Fall/Winter 2014, Volume 15, Number 2.

Comments

Copyright © 2014 by the National Collegiate Honors Council.

Abstract

When my goddaughter was eight years old, she was permitted to come from London to New York for a two-week visit. Elanor was precocious and had been asking when she could make this trip from the time she was four. When eight arrived, she was packed and ready. I had never had children, so living with an eight-year-old was an intense experience. What she mainly wanted to do was solve Rubik’s Cube in five minutes flat. When that didn’t happen, she erupted into a volcano of screams and tears. Eventually she figured out how to solve the puzzle and brought her completion time down to about three minutes.