Corrected: This story has been updated to correct the number of districts participating in Washington state’s Mastery-Based Learning Collaborative. Every state now allows schools to embrace competency ...
(TNS) — Most of us have vivid (and sometimes painful) memories of struggling to learn something new at some point in our lives. Maybe it was fourth grade math homework at your kitchen table, or a new ...
Learning in contemporary higher education is rooted deeply in calendars and time rather than mastery of the topic of the learning. With an inflexible semester or quarter calendar and an ...
Apprenticeship within the Igbo system is governed by clearly understood norms: learning occurs through immersion, assessment ...
Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...
Mastering a skill can take decades, but the learning process unfolds across multiple timescales, from mere moments to days. Researchers have tended to study either the trajectory of lifelong mastery, ...
Over a decade ago, I became intrigued by the idea of using a mastery approach to learning in accounting classes. It inspired me to convert my junior-level cost-accounting course to a mastery-based ...
A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...
Rick: A lot of parents and educators may be familiar with the phrase “mastery learning” but not have a clear idea what it means in practice. What is it exactly? Scott: My journey began in 2012 when I ...