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Disruptive Effects in Highschool Studentsʼ Assessment

Table 4: Examples given by students for the central tendency effect

Number of identified cases Example text
3 The first example“The newly arrived Geography teacher offered us only grades of nine and ten during one semester. I think that these notes that I received were not exactly the ones I deserved and I think that she gave us these grades because she was in her first year of activity.” (M., female, 18 years, 11th grade).The second example“In my case, the Physical Education teacher didn’t give grades lower than seven when he was evaluating. I think that he had a certain conception that made him have that style of giving marks, possibly a certain scale that he had established. At the same time, I think about the fact that he was in his early years of teaching, and maybe this also influenced this assessment in some way or another.” (C., female, 19 years old, 12th grade).The third example“This effect was present for me and my classmates in music class. The Music teacher gave us all grades of ten during one semester, all of us having ten as our average at the end of the semester.” (I, female, 17 years old, 10th grade).
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