teaching machine

American  

noun

1. an automatic device that presents the user with items of information in planned sequence, registers their response to each item, and immediately indicates the acceptability of each response.

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teaching machine British  

noun

1. a machine that presents information and questions to the user, registers the answers, and indicates whether these are correct or acceptable

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Etymology

Origin of teaching machine

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

The teaching machine in its most ideal form would also allow for freedom of responses to questions posed.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2021

While a few p________d l______g textbooks were written, what was really required was a teaching machine that could interactively pace the rate of instruction to the student’s success in mastering the material.

From Forbes • Oct. 15, 2014

The EVR prototype comes 15 months after CBS announced Goldmark's plans for a revolutionary "educational art form" that could turn every TV set into a teaching machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We are about to see an age where the environment itself is arranged as a teaching machine," he lectured delphically.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are good for the college to keep up its reputation as a teaching machine; and they are good for a schoolmaster in the same way.

From A Country Gentleman and his Family by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)