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

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teaching machine

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 ultimate rationale of administration," writes Goodman, "is that a school is a teaching machine, to train the young by predigested programs in order to get preordained marketable skills."

From Time Magazine Archive

Less has been learned about learning in humans than about learning in animals: Pavlov's dogs, for example, or the pingpong-playing pigeons that led to the invention of the teaching machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design by Low, David Allan