teaching machine

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.

teaching machine

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of teaching machine¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

His rudimentary successes would set off decades of research into teaching machines to recognize human faces.

From MIT Technology Review

It is now generally recognised that the old-fashioned method of teaching machine drawing is very unsatisfactory.

From Project Gutenberg

Yet to regard Miss Edgeworth as a mere teaching machine is to do her gross injustice.

From Project Gutenberg

They were in nowise above the teaching-machine variety of school masters.

From Project Gutenberg