The authors stress mastery criterion as the most important component of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). (DE)

The Exemplary Center for Reading Instruction (ECRI) teaches teachers to use proven instructional strategies and a management system to prevent reading failure and enhance language skills through an approach featuring stress on quality instructional time, teachers' use of positive reinforcement, and expectations of high mastery levels. (Author/CL)

Social work education journals do not always include research studies done in other academic departments in higher education. This bibliography includes materials from other academic departments related to the alternative teaching method called mastery learning. Mastery learning is a behavioral and outcome-based teaching method that involves using…

Mastery learning is a behavioral instructional method using additional learning time and repeated testing opportunities to increase student learning. A quasi-experimental group design with repeated measures was used to contrast mastery learning and nonmastery learning instruction for 137 undergraduates in 4 sections of an introductory social work…

Although much has been written recently about gaps in the achievement of different groups of students, the problem has been with us for many years. This manuscript presents a historical perspective of the problem, viewing it as one of reducing variation in students' achievement. Specifically, it reviews the work of renowned educator Benjamin S.…

Secondary vocational-technical education programs in Mississippi are faced with many challenges resulting from sweeping educational reforms at the national and state levels. Schools and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for providing true learning activities to every student in the classroom. This accountability is measured through…

The main aim of this study is to integrate cooperative learning strategies, mastery learning and interactive multimedia to improve students' performance in Mathematics, specifically in the topic of matrices. It involved a quasi-experimental design with gain scores and time-on-task as dependent variables. The independent variables were three…

The effects of distributed study, self-pacing, a criterion of mastery, and individualized testing were examined by assigning 422 students in an introductory psychology course to one of four different teaching/learning systems. The first encompassed a traditional lecture/discussion group format. The second employed the personalized system of…

The author presents alternative learning models to Madeline Hunter's master learning model. They are (1) the Teach-Practice-Apply (TPA) model, which calls for active teacher involvement in each phase, and (2) the 4Mat System, which models learning as a combination of two dimensions--perception and processing of information--which explains…

Sixteen recent research studies of mastery learning were analyzed to answer four questions: (1) Can 90-95 percent of students reach mastery; (2) Can teachers modify instruction to meet student needs; (3) Can teachers define mastery; and (4) How realistic is the mastery learning operating procedure? Results are discussed. (MT)

The sole purpose of this volume is to provide an elementary course of chemistry suited to the wants of students and teachers in high schools and academies. The course seeks to present the most valuable topics for a student whose study ends when he leaves the preparatory school, while at the same time providing appropriate preparation for higher…

The study involving four trainable mentally retarded elementary school students investigated the effects on sight word recognition of a teaching approach employing a small number of stimulus items at a given time, high repetition rates, and high density reinforcement. A second approach used a picture-word association technique. (SB)

We tested the effects of two embedded review question formats and the application of web design guidelines in a computer-assisted mastery learning course in developmental psychology. Students used either a branching review question format that redirected them to relevant portions of the study module after incorrect answers or a linear format that…

Mastery approaches with online Internet platforms have been shown to alleviate many students' deficiencies and open the door to higher mathematics. This paper details some current programs using online learning for precalculus courses, and detail how the research affected the design, development, and implementation of a new online approach…

The study investigated the effect of instruction on basic number fact mastery of 123 learning disabled (LD) students, 8 to 13 years old. Mastery of basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts was seen as an important component of overall arithmetic competence and represents a particular area of performance deficit among LD students. The…