teaching machine
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.
Origin of teaching machine
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How to use teaching machine in a sentence
It is now generally recognised that the old-fashioned method of teaching machine drawing is very unsatisfactory.
An Introduction to Machine Drawing and Design | David Allan LowYet to regard Miss Edgeworth as a mere teaching machine is to do her gross injustice.
Maria Edgeworth | Helen ZimmernThey were in nowise above the teaching-machine variety of school masters.
My Reminiscences | Rabindranath Tagore
British Dictionary definitions for teaching machine
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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