The machine itself, of course, does not teach. It simply brings the student into contact with the person who composed the material it presents.

Although it is much easier to build a machine to score multiple-choice answers than to evaluate a composed response, the technical advantage is outweighed by these and other considerations.

An appropriate teaching machine will have several important features. The student must compose his response rather than select it from a set of alternatives, as in a multiple-choice self-rater.

Perhaps the technically most interesting features of such automatic devices ae that they can take some of the load of teaching off the teacher' s shoulders, and, perhaps more important, that the machine can provide immediate correction or feedback to the student while he is in the act of learning.

Wir nutzen [...] [den Computer] als Lernmedium und gelegentlich - falls gute Übungsprogramme zur Verfügung stehen - als (spielerische) Übungs- und Trainingshilfe, wenn es darum geht, eine bestimmte Geläufigkeit im Bereich mathematischer und sprachlicher Fertigkeit zu erzielen, oder wenn grundlegendes Sachwissen gefestigt oder transferiert werden soll.