SOME FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENT PERFORMANCE IN PROGRAMMED LEARNING

Abstract

For a system to work effectively, each component must act reliably. The student is an essential component in a teaching machine system: in particular, he exerts considerable control over the time constraints of the system. Yet it is unlikely that the • student‐‐because of external and internal pressures‐‐can always work in a reliable way, and so the teaching system may operate in a less than optimum manner. In this paper American and British experiments concerned with this aspect of programmed instruction are reviewed. It is concluded, despite the limited nature of the evidence available, that there are conditions where learning under conditions of self‐pacing may be less efficient than learning with others and/or under some form of external pacing.

* Paper presented to the 3rd International Conference on Problems of Programmed Learning and Teaching Machines, Liblice, near Prague, May 1967.

Notes

* Paper presented to the 3rd International Conference on Problems of Programmed Learning and Teaching Machines, Liblice, near Prague, May 1967.