A TEACHING MACHINE PRESENTS A SERIES OF PROBLEM MATERIALS TO A STUDENT, REQUIRES AN OVERT BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE, AND PROVIDES RESULTS OF THE BEHAVIOR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE RESPONSE. THERE WERE EIGHT GROUPS OF 10 JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO WERE EXPERIMENTALLY TRAINED WITH MANUALLY CONTROLLED TEACHING MACHINES, EACH GROUP WAS TAUGHT WITH A…

THE NEW YORK CITY SCHOOL SYSTEM'S EFFORTS IN PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION ARE DISCUSSED. IN THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, EXPERIMENTS ARE BEING CONDUCTED WITH DOUBLEDAY'S "TUTOR TEXTS" ON COMPUTER MATHEMATICS, THE TEMAC MATERIALS, AND THE UNITED STATES INDUSTRIES'"AUTO TUTORS." IN THE JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS, SPECIALISTS ARE DEVELOPING…

THE PURPOSE OF THIS HANDBOOK IS TO HELP TEACHERS BECOME EFFECTIVE USERS OF PROGRAMS. IT PRESENTS CHARACTERISTICS, GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING, AND CRITERIA FOR DETERMINING EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS IN THE TEXT. A FILMSTRIP BY THE SAME TITLE, GIVING FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF A PROGRAM MAY BE USED WITH THE HANDBOOK. A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 70 ITEMS, A LIST OF…

Over 3,500 commercial programs for use in programed instruction are listed by subject and publisher. For each title or series, the following information is provided: approximate length in hours, approximate length in frames or pages, appropriate level for use, list price, and "other information," which often includes a description of the contents.…

Published, as well as selected unpublished, articles dealing with programed instruction and computer-assisted instruction are cited in this bibliography. The articles are drawn from Education Index, Psychological Abstracts, Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), Dissertation Abstracts, and 58 journals in the fields of psychology,…

The results of the work described here were taken as evidence of the feasibility of developing effective totally self-instructional materials for spoken language training. The author is Director of the Psycholinguistics Program at the Center for Applied Linguistics. This article comprises Supplement 24 to "The Linguistic Reporter. (FWB)

SEVERAL SCHOLARS, KNOWLEDGEABLE BOTH ABOUT SCHOOLS AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, WERE ASKED TO LOOK AT A SCHOOL OR A SCHOOL SYSTEM WHERE PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION WAS IN USE, AND REPORT ON IT. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS POSED WERE--(1) WHAT HAD CERTAIN SCHOOLS DONE WITH PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION, (2) WHAT WERE THEIR REACTIONS TO THE EXPERIENCE, (3) WHAT PROBLEMS HAD…

THE FIRST TEACHING MACHINE WAS INVENTED IN THE 1920'S BY SIDNEY L. PRESSEY AND THE FIRST MODERN TEACHING MACHINE WAS DEVELOPED AND POPULARIZED IN THE EARLY 1930'S BY B.F. SKINNER. TODAY BUSINESSMEN AND INDUSTRIALISTS AS WELL AS EDUCATORS HAVE FOUND TEACHING MACHINES USEFUL. ACTUALLY, TEACHING IS ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH THE PROGRAM, A CAREFULLY…

A completely automated multi-media self-study program for teaching a portion of electronic solid-state fundamentals was developed. The subject matter areas included were fundamental theory of transistors, transistor amplifier fundamentals, and simple mathematical analysis of transistors including equivalent circuits, parameters, and characteristic…

In a document translated from the Russian, an analysis is made of various forms and methods of programed learning. The primary developments in the introduction of programed learning methods are: creation of programed teaching aids; use of existing textbooks for programed lectures with feedback; and use of both teaching machines and machineless…

This manual provides documentation for the design, construction, and operation of an interactive electronics training panel developed for a computer assisted performance training carrel. The panel is a plug-in module designed to simulate electronic circuitry and a PMS-6 multimeter as required for a troubleshooting fundamentals lesson in an Air…

THE BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 131 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS ON TEACHING MACHINES AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION. LISTED UNDER BOOKS ARE 55 ITEMS DATING FROM 1959 TO 1966. ARTICLES AND PERIODICALS CITED DATE FROM 1915 TO 1965 AND NUMBER 53. INCLUDED AS MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS ARE 23 LISTINGS SUCH AS THESES, PROJECT REPORTS, GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, AND DITTOS…

This report, summarizing the activities of the Vision Information Center (VIC) in the field of computer-assisted instruction from December, 1966 to August, 1967, describes the methodology used to load a large body of information--a programed text on basic opthalmology--onto a computer for subsequent information retrieval and computer-assisted…

Eight groups of ten junior college students were given an experimental training session with manually simulated teaching machines, each group being taught with a different mode of teaching machine operation. The variables were student response mode, size of steps between successive items, and branching procedure. A written test was given to all…

The ELS (English Language Services) Teacher Education Program is an experimental multi-media self-instructional course in the techniques of teaching English to speakers of other languages. It is designed as an alternate approach to conventional teacher training methods, providing the means of producing new teachers without requiring a professional…