Mastery learning is an instructional strategy and educational philosophy holding that students should reach a high level of competence, typically around ninety percent accuracy, in one unit of material before advancing to the next. First formally proposed by Benjamin Bloom in 1968, it inverts the usual assumption that time is fixed and achievement varies: Bloom argued that if each learner received the quality of instruction and the amount of time they actually needed, most students could reach the same high standard rather than being sorted along a bell curve. Students who do not yet meet the bar receive corrective instruction and retest rather than moving on with gaps in their foundation. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Central QuestionIf instruction and time are adapted to the learner rather than fixed, can nearly all students reach the same high standard of achievement? 1 Most Effective ForWeaker and struggling students in well-defined, sequential subjects such as science, probability and social studies, where a meta-analysis found an average effect size of 0.59, moderate to substantial gains in academic performance. 1 Mastery Learning
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Khan Academy's instructional design is explicitly built around the mastery learning concept, letting students progress at their own pace.
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Bloom formally proposed mastery learning in 1968.
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Mastery learning is an instructional strategy and educational philosophy that emphasizes the importance of students achieving a high level of competence (e.g., 90% accuracy) in prerequisite knowledge before moving on to new material.
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If a student does not initially achieve mastery, they receive additional instruction and support until they do.
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an average effect size of 0.59, which demonstrates moderate to substantial improvements in academic performance
- Developed By: Benjamin Bloom
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The videos enable students to acquire knowledge at their own learning speed according to the concept of mastery learning.
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Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913, September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist and didactician who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery learning.
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Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to the educational phenomenon that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment.
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Bloom's 2 sigma problem refers to the educational phenomenon that the average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students educated in a classroom environment.
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Mastery Learning as an Argument Against the Curve
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