Mastery Learning: Theory and Practice

✍ Scribed by James H. Block

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc.
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 162
• Edition: first
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"One of the most powerful ideas beginning to shape educational views and practices is mastery learning. It assumes that all, or almost all, students can learn well and suggests explicit classroom procedures whereby all (up to 95 per cent) can achieve to high levels. Few recent ideas have produced more dramatic positive effects on student learning or generated more interest and school-based research than mastery learning.
This book brings together for the first time the basic mastery ideas and the relevant supporting research. The volume consists of two major parts. In Part One, a collection of articles focuses on both the theory behind mastery learning and the operating procedures required to implement an effective mastery strategy in a course, subject, or even an entire curriculum. Part Two presents an extensive annotated bibliography of mastery learning research. Studies bearing on the major mastery learning variables and those describing various successful mastery strategies have been abstracted. This arrangement is designed so that teachers, administrators, curriculum-makers, and researchers can draw some important implications from the data presented, pose some major questions, and suggest possible future research and new strategies."

SBN: 03-086073-3

✦ Table of Contents

PART ONE: Selected Papers on Mastery Learning
1. Chapter 1: "Introduction to Mastery Learning: Theory and Practice", James H. Block
2. Chapter 2: "Affective Consequences of School Achievement", Benjamin S. Bloom
3. Chapter 3: "Problems of Measurement Related to the Concept of Learning for Mastery", John B. Carroll
4. Chapter 4: "Mastery Learning", Benjamin S. Bloom
5. Chapter 5: "Operating Procedures for Mastery Learning", James H. Block
6. Chapter 6: "The Role of Evaluation in Mastery Learning", Peter W. Airasian

PART TWO: An Annotated Bibliography on Mastery Learning
- Introduction 90
- Summary of Mastery Learning Research
A. Aptitude and Rate of Learning
B. Ability to Understand Instruction
C. Quality of Instruction
D. Perseverance
E. Time as a Variable in Attaining Mastery
F, Affective Consequences of School Learning
G. Use of Mastery Learning Concepts and Strategies
- Abstracts

• Index

✦ Subjects

education, psychology, learning, mastery learning, psychometrics, anthology, James H. Block, Benjamin S. Bloom, John B. Carroll, Peter W. Airasian