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Cox, Charlotte H.; Bloom, Benjamin S. – Curriculum Review, 1979
This is the first half of a two-part interview with Benjamin S. Bloom in which he speaks out on the place of mastery learning in the future of our educational system. (KC)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Formative Evaluation, Interviews
Peer reviewedPopham, W. James – Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 1983
Developers of high stakes criterion-referenced tests are urged to formulate test tasks so that efficient instruction can promote student mastery of the domain. Time-on-task has been promoted by instructional psychologists as preferable to test teaching. (DWH)
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Objectives, Instructional Improvement
Keene, John M. – 1988
Increasing numbers of state-mandated testing programs have resulted in the selection of norm-referenced tests (NRTs) for statewide assessment. Adaptation or customization of existing tests has become a viable solution for individual programs. Changes in test instruments have arisen from the behaviorist approach and mastery learning, minimum…
Descriptors: Criterion Referenced Tests, Elementary Secondary Education, Equated Scores, Item Banks
