teaching machine

teaching machine
a mechanical, electrical, or other automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers his or her response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.

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device
      any mechanical device used for presenting a program of instructional material.

      There are many types of teaching machines. In general, they all work on the same method, which is to present a question, have the user indicate the answer, and then provide the user with the correct answer. Some machines may be extremely simple, such as test sheets or books so programmed that the student locates the answers to the questions later. For instance, a book may pose a series of questions, provide spaces for the answers, and then give the correct answers on a different page. Another device may use a plastic cover to hide all but the question and the space for an answer; when the question is answered, the cover is pulled down to reveal the correct answer and the next question. One type uses chemically treated paper so that if the correct answer to a question is marked, the paper turns colour. A more complicated machine presents multiple-choice questions in a window, with various keys to press to indicate the correct answer. The following question appears only if the correct answer was chosen. Computers (see computer-assisted instruction) and the recording equipment used in foreign language laboratories are examples of teaching machines.

      All teaching machines depend on a program, that is, a series of questions presented that provide a student with a certain amount of challenge as well as a chance to learn. (See programmed learning.) There are many advantages to the use of teaching machines. They are particularly useful in subjects that require drill, such as arithmetic or a foreign language. Users can proceed at their own pace and also have an opportunity to review their work. If the machines are used in a classroom, they relieve teachers of some of the time-consuming aspects of drilling students, allowing them to give more attention to individuals with specific problems or to concentrate on some particularly difficult area of instruction.

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