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

B. F. Skinner is often credited as the inventor of the “teaching machine.”

From Slate

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

From Slate

He believed that humans, too, would respond to such conditioning, and soon conceived of a ‘teaching machine’ that would allow students to learn through immediate feedback.

From Nature

Miriam Mann, a tiny firebrand who had taught school in Georgia, had come to the city with her family when her husband, William, accepted a position as an instructor teaching machine shop at the US Naval Training School at Hampton Institute.

From Literature

Skinner revived some of Pressey’s ideas in a device of his own, called the Teaching Machine.

From Slate