Program teaching is a model of Skinner's operant conditioning learning theory applied to teaching. Program teaching refers to decomposing the knowledge of various disciplines into a series of knowledge items according to their inherent logical connection, which are interrelated and gradually deepened, and then allowing students to learn each knowledge one by one in the order of knowledge items, and giving feedback and reinforcement in time with the learning of each knowledge item, so that students can finally master the knowledge they have learned and achieve the predetermined teaching purpose.
Skinner's basic idea of program teaching: small step presentation; Positive presentation; Timely feedback; Self-paced; Improve the effect. This idea is one of the theoretical foundations of computer-aided instruction technology, which provides basic principles and ideas for its development.
Brief introduction of program teaching thought;
Program teaching is a kind of teaching in the form of individual self-study by using program teaching materials. Program teaching was mainly initiated by plessy, the inventor of teaching machine, and F Skinner, a famous American educational psychologist, made the greatest contribution to program teaching. However, he established the learning theory of operational behaviorism through animal experiments, and put forward the program teaching theory and its teaching mode accordingly.
Its procedural teaching principles can be divided into positive response principle, small step principle, immediate feedback principle and so on. Its program teaching mode can be divided into classical linear program, higher derivative program and Murphy program. But if teachers want to implement programmed teaching, they must use programmed teaching materials or carry out machine teaching.