basic task in education is to find strategies which will take
individual differences into consideration but which will do so in such
a way as to promote the fullest development of the individual. --Benjamin Bloom
Bloom coined the term "Learning for Mastery" and then later "Mastery
Learning" in 1968 and 1971 to describe an educational method in which
each student stays with a certain unit of learning material in a
process of assessing and correcting until the objectives of that unit
are mastered before moving on to the next unit. This remains among the
most intuitive and effective teaching methods today. As nation-wide
education reform focuses increasingly on setting standards and testing,
there is an urgent need to bring students who have trailed behind
educationally up to newly stringent standards. Mastery Learning
implemented with diverse educational resources can meet this need.
The goal of this website is to gather together research, resources, and
ideas about Mastery Learning in a central hub of information. Please
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