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…

Explains the components of the mastery learning model and discusses the model's curricular implications and problems. Condensed from "Mastery Learning, Fastback 154," published by the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation, Bloomington, Indiana. (Editor/SJL)

Presents four guidelines for improving individualized instruction, based on the author's experience with the "mastery learning" approach to instruction. (JG)

Describes how the spiral curriculum, which introduces theater in elementary school, provides a basis for mastery teaching. Provides ideas for curriculum development, management, facilities, equipment, and costuming for the elementary, junior high, and high school programs. (PRA)

To move information toward knowledge and activity toward mastery, learners must play with ideas, use them, and make them their own. Methods for achieving mastery include interdisciplinary approaches that require deep thinking, story telling, and reflection. (Contains 20 references.) (SK)

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…

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…

As the demand for online education continues to increase, institutions are faced with developing process models for efficient, high-quality online course development. This paper describes a systems, team-based, approach that centers on an online instructional design theory ("Active Mastery Learning") implemented at Colorado State…

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…

This document is an annotated, selected bibliography on competency-based education. Items include books, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, and ERIC documents, totaling 29 entries in all. The dates on the bulk of materials range from 1974 through 1977; however, a few older items are included. Materials deal with testing,…

To explore attitudes having a direct relationship to written composition and mastery learning, 80 undergraduate college students were asked to respond to questions that centered on the issues of criteria for determining when a composition is complete, feelings associated with having to repeat a task, and the idea that one's best effort should be…

The interrelationship of computer assisted instruction and individual differences was investigated. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) Bloom's hypothesis of decreasing individual differences under a mastery-learning strategy, and (2) the random walk interpretation of simplicial correlation matrices. Stanford's Computer-Assisted Instruction Math…