Skinner and the teaching machine

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Skinner believed that teaching can be improved with behavioral techniques. In this video he discusses how the teaching machine workds. The student gets immediate feedback. The student is free to move at his own pace. The bright student is not held back and the slower student is not pushed beyond there natural pace. The student is not being tested.

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