Mastery Learning
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What is mastery?

The history...
The Winnetka Plan
Educational Measurement as a Key to Individual Instruction and Promotions (Washburne, 1922)
A model of school learning
Learning for Mastery (Bloom, 1968)
The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring (Bloom, 1984)
The Carroll Model: A 25-Year Retrospective and Prospective View (Carroll, 1989)
Mastery learning: Applying the theory (Guskey, 1980)
Formative Classroom Assessment and Benjamin S. Bloom: Theory, Research, and Implications (Guskey, 2005)
Important Considerations
Inflexible Knowledge: The First Step to Expertise (Willingham, 2020)
How to improve student educational outcomes (McKinsey, 2015)
The Mastery Cycle
Mastery Learning Cycle (McCourt, 2019)
Group-based mastery learning: A Robin Hood Approach to Instruction? (Fitzpatrick, 1985)
Mastery Learning - An Effective Teaching Strategy (Motamedi, 2012)
Connecting Learning

Creating the 'right' conditions
How to explain schema
Using our memory shapes our memory (Bjork)
A powerful way to improve learning and memory
Only through attending...
Learning Trajectories
Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction (Jossey-Bass, 2010)
How do we 'spot' learning?
Connected Ideas
What is the connection?
Developing Mathematical Thinking: Try these first!
Developing Mathematicians
Mastery Learning in the Classroom (Whiting, 1995).pdf
Cognitive and Affective Outcomes of Mastery Learning: A Review of Sixteen Semesters (Whiting, 1987)
Improving Learning in Mathematics (Swan, 2005)
Problems with Patterns and Numbers
The Language of Functions and Graphs (Shell Centre, 1985)
Problem Solving Booklet
Problem Solving Booklet (Teacher Notes)

Connecting Learning

In this section, we will look at how learning should be connected when communicated to pupils and some important considerations when implementing mastery learning.

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