Abstract
In 1973, Naftulin, Ware and Donnelly published a paper titled «The Doctor Fox Lecture: A Paradigm of Educational Seduction». The researchers reported from several studies where an expressive and enthusiastic «expert» delivered a lecture on the topic of mathematical game theory and physician education. The lecture was without any meaningful content, but the audience liked it and the paper concluded that they had been seduced into an illusion of having learned something significant. The study has since been heavily cited and much debated. Much discussion has been related to the validity of students’ evaluation of teaching and whether such evaluations indicate learning. Forty years after the first Dr. Fox study, Peer and Babad (2014) decided to replicate the original study. Results were surprisingly consistent regarding students’ satisfaction with the lecturer, but the new study did not confirm that students FAGFELLEVURDERT ARTIKKEL
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