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The first example“I will tell you in a few words my example of this Halo effect. Being a student in the 10th grade, and the Maths teacher living next door to us in the same neighborhood and knowing my parents, she always offered me at least half an extra point on each grade, and my colleagues and I could see this. She always gave me this score by saying, “well, we have to take care of the neighbors.” So I think the teacher was subjectively evaluating my Maths skills. Of course I liked the fact that I was getting “high” grades, but this difference the teacher made was not exactly appropriate.” (M., male, 17 years, 10th grade).The second example“My Biology teacher has always had something to say about me because he did not like my outfit. Indeed, being a little more eccentric, I was going out of the everyday pattern, so in the eyes of the professor I was very different from my colleagues in this fashion aspect. Therefore, he never forgot to penalize me for a low grade, an never forgot to make inappropriate observations whenever we met in a formal setting.” (I, male, 18 years old, 11th grade).The third example“I will describe very briefly a story that produced this Halo effect in my assessment. My father was playing football with the Romanian teacherʼs husband on the synthetic field. One day he was asked by my father to leave the game for a few minutes for another colleague to enter and play on the field. This did not suit my teacher’s husband, as there was a little verbal conflict between him and my father, the next day I began to be “penalized” either in response or through grades by the teacher. I will mention that from the next day I did not receive more than a seven from her.” (E., female, 18 years old, 11th grade) |
