what is mastery learning?
“ The tutoring process demonstrates that most of the students have the potential to reach this high level of learning. I believe an important task of research and instruction is to seek ways of accomplishing this under more practical and realistic conditions than the one-to-one tutoring, which is too costly for most societies to bear on a large scale. This is the “2 sigma” problem. Can researchers and teachers devise teaching-learning conditions that will enable the majority of students under group instruction to attain levels of achievement that can at present be reached only under good tutoring conditions? ”
A Paper was published in 1984 by Benjamin Bloom based on work done by his doctoral students (Joanne Anania and Arthur Burke)
A Paper was published in 1984 by Benjamin Bloom based on work done by his doctoral students (Joanne Anania and Arthur Burke)
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The experiment was done multiple times in two subject areas and with students in grades 4, 5, and 8 Over a 3-week period, students were randomly assigned to one of these three groups
Conventional: 30 students in a class are taught the subject matter by a teacher; students are given periodic tests. Mastery Learning: Same as Conventional, but with additional formative assessments and feedback to determine the extent to which students have mastered the topic. Tutoring: Groups of 1-3 students are taught by a tutor over the 3-week period and given the same assessments as the Mastery Learning group. The difference final achievement measures was significant:
The average Mastery student scored higher than 84% of the Conventional students (this is a 1 Sigma or one standard deviation improvement) The average Tutored student scored higher than 98% of the Conventional students (this is the 2 Sigma improvement from the title) |
what is mastery learning?
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