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Teaching Machines

Science (1958). Volume: 128, Issue: 3330. Pages: 969-977.

B F Skinner et al.

The need for efficiency in education. Challenges, including class sizes, are getting in the way. Vanishing technique: start be giving explicit instruction and contol and slowly pull back until students are basically programmed to complete work on own. Program instruction in a systematic way so that students can quickly pick up. A student is taught in the sense that he is induced to behave in a certain way in specific circumstances. The creator of the teaching machine has to get all of the steps necessary to get students to exhibit a behavior. Sequence is important.

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