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The first example"In a multiple choice exam, this error of assessment occurred, namely the contrast effect. More specifically, I remember that before offering the final answer I circled other variants that I then cut, not understanding exactly which correct answer I chose That’s why the teacher of that subject gave me a three-point lower grade on that test because esthetically speaking, “the work didn’t look pretty.” (I., female, 18 years old, 11th grade).The second example“At the Romanian class in the 9th grade I needed a grade to have my average for the end of the first semester. What happened was that, at the end of the last class when I was given this opportunity to be assessed, the teacher got an “important” call telling me that I should try to answer more quickly to what ishe was going to ask me because she was going to have to leave school early that day. I understand that by then I had to have a certain number of grades for that subject, but because of the problems I had I could not participate during the semester in a normal way to classes. So I can only tell you that after that phone call we had to cut short the assessment time, and the grade given was lower for the reason “7 is enough for your average”, and the averages of that subject up to that moment were not lower than nine” (L., female, 19 years old, 9th grade).The third example“The event that I went through and that ultimately had a happy ending for me went as follows. Inadvertently or because of fatigue, the Chemistry teacher had given us a multiple choice test; when we got the results I noticed that my grade was lower by 5 points. I had wondered how I could get a five, knowing that I had prepared for that test, and so without much thought I asked the teacher if she could evaluate my work again. She was nice, and we looked together over the answer options given by me, and the final grade came with five extra points, which meant I deserved the top grade because I had answered all the exercises correctly.” (N, male, 19 years old, 12th grade). |
