A teacher knows that Linda always performs at the top of her class. On one units' summative assessment, Linda's performance was not very good but the teacher gave her a high grade reasoning that Linda just had an "off day." Which type of error did the teacher most likely commit?
a. Halo effect
b. Logical error
c. Leniency error
d. Personal bias error
a
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