Tag Archives: mastery

I am preparing to teach “mastery learning” next week. Teaching this topic is not particularly difficult for me because I have been interested in the topic since I first became interested in the early 1970s. The underlying principles made so … Continue reading →

I have observed multiple online references to teaching for mastery in the last couple of months. I have mixed reactions based on a career-long interest in mastery learning. On the positive side, seeing new interest in an old idea that … Continue reading →

The Atlantic recently included an article criticizing the educational version of personalization promoted and supported by Mark and Chan Zuckerberg because it relies on dated research. And for good reason: The results from the 1984 study underlying it have essentially never … Continue reading →

Old guys can become cynical. Like, when they encounter some great new idea and it seems pretty much the same thing they encountered thirty years ago. Proficiency based learning – sounds very much like mastery learning from the late 1960s-1970s. … Continue reading →