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The first example“I am glad that I can present this episode that I went through when I moved from another country here in Romania. I grew up to the age of 14 in France, together with my parents who had gone to work since I was a little boy, and from the age of 16 when I was entering the ninth grade we returned together to Romania. So I think that once I entered ninth grade, from the very beginning I was disadvantaged by the teachers in the class compared to the other colleagues, Because I was always underappreciated and not assessed enough by them in comparison with the other teachers at the school I came from in France. I can say that I was underappreciated in grades and sometimes jokes were made on my part from teachers because of the accent I had gained in these years.” (V., male, 9th grade, 16 years old).The second example“I will present in these few lines the appearance of this effect of the personal equation of the examiner that arose when the Physics teacher retired. He had a personal style at the time of his assessment, being very objective by his methods. Another teacher came in his place, of course, having a different style of teaching and evaluation, he began to evaluate us in a subjective way, giving us grades that sometimes demotivated us.” (D., female, 17 years old, 10th grade).The third example“Moving with my parents from another county to Alba County (the reason being my father’s job) I was received in a special way by my colleagues, but not by some teachers. I say this because there were teachers who at first almost every hour were evaluating me in a not-so-fitting way saying, “Let’s see what our colleague from city X knows.” This might have demotivated some people, but I was always motivated to prepare more and more and to answer all the questions that I was asked by those teachers.” (A, male, 17 years old, 10th grade). |
