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Dr. Fox Effect

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The Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between a teacher's attire, expressiveness and coverage of content on one side, and student evaluation and student achievement on the other. The effect also offers insight into other related effects and relationships between student achievement and how a teacher is evaluated.

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Core Claim
The Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between teacher attire, expressiveness, content coverage, student evaluation, and student achievement. 1
Origin Year
1970 1
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1. Wikipedia: Dr. Fox Effect
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  • Wikipedia, Dr. Fox effect, lead paragraph, definition sentence
    The Dr. Fox effect is a correlation observed between teacher attire, expressiveness, content coverage, student evaluation, and student achievement.
  • Experiment section, first sentence
    The original experiment was performed at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in 1970
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