Presents a four-step process for staff members interested in designing their own mastery learning program. (Author/JM)

College-level "grade inflation" may result not from flabby standards but from more effective instructional strategies such as mastery learning. (Author/JM)

Analyzes information in the ERIC data base which concerns mastery learning and mastery testing with emphasis on the secondary school. (MKM)

The article suggests recommended student competencies for students using low vision devices at preschool, elementary, and secondary levels. It also presents an extensive bibliography on low vision aids for special educators. (DB)

The Personalized System of Instruction (PSI) was tested in an introductory nursing course with 23 students using PSI and 20 in a control group receiving traditional instruction. Students using the self-instructional method achieved significantly higher grades; student acceptance of PSI was satisfactory. (SK)

Committed to outcome-based education, the superintendent and board of a central California school district proceeded to stabilize the environment, develop a research-based belief system, align an outcome-focused curriculum, and implement a staff development program. To stem opposition to OBE, mastery learning, and criterion-referenced assessment,…

Situates lifelong learning within the framework of postmodernism, particularly the notions of performativity, decentering, and lack of mastery. Describes lifelong learning in postmodernist terms as a condition of constant apprenticeship in which proficiency is never final or complete. (Contains 44 references.) (SK)

According to expectancy-value theories, increasing the utility value of a learning activity should result in higher motivation and better learning. In contrast, self-determination theory posits that the content of the future goals (intrinsic vs. extrinsic) that enhance the utility value of the learning activity needs to be considered as well.…

"Symbolics" gives students the foundation needed to be successful. School administrators will benefit more by implementing the "symbolics" realms of meaning into their core curriculum. "Symbolics" lays a foundation for critical thinking skills which will help educators to address the most common question students ask while taking mathematics. "Why…

The present study used an ecological framework to examine the relationships among adolescents' perceptions of school climate, social competence, and behavioral and psychological adjustment in the middle school years. This study improved upon prior studies by using "structural equation modeling" to investigate the hypothesized mediating…

This paper presents the development of the fusion model skills diagnosis system (fusion model system), which can help integrate standardized testing into the learning process with both skills-level examinee parameters for modeling examinee skill mastery and skills-level item parameters, giving information about the diagnostic power of the test.…

This study investigated the effects of mastery learning on learner achievement in the psychomotor domain and also sought to identify the specific learner who might benefit from the use of mastery learning techniques. Subjects were college students learning to play racquetball. Fourty-three students were assigned to three intact mastery classes,…

This paper describes the elements that most clearly identify and are most critical to a mastery learning program. Ways in which teachers can easily and efficiently implement these elements in their teaching and practices are outlined, along with procedures for evaluating their effectiveness in improving student learning. A discussion is presented…

The impact of male and female college students' grades, achievement, and attitudes of the respective "correction" procedures used in Bloom- and Keller-type mastery learning strategies was investigated. Findings indicate periodic corrections, using Bloom's strategy, may improve students' ability to apply course material. (Author/BJG)

This guide gives specific guidelines for a five-step system to install effectively an individualized mathematics program. These steps are: (1) use of a planning model described; (2) organization of resources available; (3) installation of an environment in which individualization is possible; (4) use of diagnostic and prescriptive teaching; and…