Profax

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The Profax (in the 1960s in Switzerland colloquial for "Professor"), also Profax learning device , is a device for practicing and automating learning content with ongoing self-monitoring . Profax is mainly used in primary schools.

function

It is a sturdy plastic box with a perforated drawer in which a punched card covered with paper is placed. The student places the exercise book on the Profax and pokes a pencil into the appropriate hole according to the possible solutions printed on the edge and pushes the drawer one position further. Correctly solved tasks result in a hole in the paper, incorrect ones result in a point.

  • Profax box

  • Drawer with punch card

  • Profax with drawer

commitment

The publisher publishes a wide range of exercises for the 1st to 9th school year that are tailored to the curriculum. The focus is on primary schools. The «Profax», like other classic self-control learning devices , such as the LÜK , is often used as part of free work . Exercise books exist for the subjects German, mathematics, grammar, geography, geometry, reading comprehension, concentration training, dyslexia therapy, French and Latin.

history

Around 1965, the three young teachers Hans Giezendanner, Gertrud Zimmermann and Ernst Bindschedler from the canton of Zurich had the idea for an exercise device with which students should work according to the principles of learning psychology. In doing so, they were guided by the ideas of programmed lessons and modern psychological knowledge. In collaboration with the psychologist and didactic specialist Hans Aebli , a prototype was finally developed and a patent was applied for in 1967.

Shortly after the "Profax" was presented to the professional world, the Education Council of the Canton of Zurich decided, at the suggestion of the Cantonal College, to add "Profax" to the list of recommended teaching aids. Other cantons in German-speaking Switzerland followed this example.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The profax story. In: profax.ch. Retrieved April 23, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Method pool at the University of Cologne