Derived from B. F. Skinner. Learners are given limited amount of information and proceed at their own pace from one content chunk to the next as they respond to prompts. Correct answers are rewarded, incorrect answers are corrected with immediate feedback.
A procedure that provides information to the learner in small steps, guarantees immediate feedback concerning whether or not the material was learned properly and allows the learner the pace with which she can go through the material.
Self-study programs, usually printed, comprised of instructional material divided up into small segments. Learners complete a series of questions; answers are immediately provided. Used for remedial and make-up learning, highly motivated, and geographically distant learners.
A teaching method involving a pre-constructed sequence of steps and associated feedback, based on the ideas of Skinner and/or Crowder. Now largely subsumed under Computer Based Learning. Quality Assessment: A process of estimating the worth of a particular educational programme based on evidence about its administration in relation to agreed criteria. Reliability: In relation to an examination or test instrument, a measure of the degree to which it gives consistent results when applied in different contexts.
Programmed Learning is a learning technique first proposed by the behaviorist B. F. Skinner in 1958. According to Skinner, the purpose of programmed learning is to "manage human learning under controlled conditions".