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Peer reviewedBloom, Benjamin S. – Childhood Education, 1979
Presents a theory of school learning that attempts to explain individual differences in school learning as well as to determine the ways in which such differences may be altered. (MP)
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Group Instruction, Guides
Peer reviewedBloom, Benjamin S. – Educational Leadership, 1984
Summarizes research exploring six solutions to the "2 sigma problem" of devising teaching-learning conditions that will enable the majority of students under group instruction to achieve at levels now possible only when students are tutored. Recommendations include using mastery learning, improving the home environment, and emphasizing higher…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Administration, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Bloom, Benjamin S. – Principal, 1986
Reviews breakthrough studies in the development of higher mental processes. These studies include: (1) influences on talent development; (2) the relative effects of tutoring, mastery learning, and conventional group instruction on student achievement; (3) the importance of cognitive prerequisites; (4) textbook organization; and (5) methods of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development
