According to Robert Slavin's textbook, Educational Psychology, mastery learning is to "make sure that all or most students have learned a particular skill to a preestablished level of mastery before moving on to the next skill".

1. Mastery Learning System's "Count, Notice, & Remember" is a new tool for helping low achieving math students master the basics -- without old-fashioned rote memory devices. This new method of instruction was developed for students who can't remember basic concepts and skills.

2. Mastery Learning Tested: An investigation quickly concluded that this bimodal grade distribution originated from the heterogeneous class background, with some students having good prerequisites and the others having not-so-good prerequisites.

3. According to Slavin: This web site gives the definition of mastery learning along with the effectiveness of it. Slavin states two goals for mastery learning at this site. He also views the effectiveness and drawbacks involving mastery learning and gives an outline to accompany it.

4. Mastery Learning and Homework: If certain kinds of time-on-task are positively related to student achievement, it is reasonable to expect that instructional approaches which foster those kinds of time-on-task would be successful in promoting achievement increases. Results on the effectiveness of group-based mastery learning programs are mixed.

5. Quizzes for Mastery Learning: Two related evaluation plans which must be developed and implemented in order to both show the impact of a program and to constantly improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the program. These are the plans for formative evaluation and summative evaluation.

6. More Info: Visit this webpage related to Benjamin Bloom's mastery learning by Sally Weekley.

Created by: Stephanie Hatch for Dr. Bruce Lewis, PSY 306-01, on November 17, 1999.