programmed instruction

Applying this approach, the student would reach a level of competency with the least number of errors through programmed instruction in increments.

‘Programmed instruction’ was one of the early names for it.”

Juvenile Offenders Some critics, loyal Skinnerians among them, argue that this teaching process bores all but the dullest students, and that there is little solid evidence as to how well programmed instruction sticks.

It was after a visit to his daughter's fourth-grade arithmetic class that he invented the first device for programmed instruction in 1954.

It runs a mail-order education empire, including the Famous Writers, Artists and Photographers schools, that sells about $90 million yearly in programmed instruction to would-be Hemingways, Picassos and Carder-Bressons around the world.