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Mizen, Darci Weakley; Linton, Nancy – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1983
Physical educators can help mainstreamed handicapped children by (1) preparing classmates to understand and accept disabled children; (2) avoiding practices that unintentionally embarrass the mainstreamed child; (3) building self-esteem through success; and (4) using mastery teaching and peer tutoring. Modifications of rules and equipment are…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Disabilities, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Parkinson, B. L.; And Others – Programmed Learning and Educational Technology, 1983
Summarizes a study into the feasibility, problems, benefits, and implications of using mastery learning in teaching French to students in Scottish secondary schools. Examples are provided of target objectives, specimen test materials, progress cards, and class activity records, and implications on class organization are discussed. (EAO)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Class Organization, Educational Strategies, Foreign Countries

Clark, Charlotte R.; And Others – Journal of Educational Research, 1983
A group-based, teacher-paced mastery learning format was used to instruct students in two sections of an undergraduate course on teaching mainstreamed handicapped children. Students in these sections displayed greater achievement and higher motivation, measured by their number of absences, than did students taught the course by more conventional…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attendance, Education Courses, Group Instruction

Arlin, Marshall; Webster, Janet – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1983
Eighty-eight seventh grade students were randomly assigned to mastery or nonmastery approaches to learning four hierarchical chapters about sailing. The price of increased achievement benefits of group-based mastery learning seems to be increased time costs of (1) extra remedial time and (2) "wasted time" of faster learners. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 7, Individual Differences, Intermode Differences

Guskey, Thomas R. – Journal of Educational Research, 1982
To determine whether increasing teachers' effectiveness influences the relationship between teachers' initial expectations for a student and the student's actual performance, data were gathered on intermediate grades and secondary school teachers who participated in a mastery learning workshop. Correlations between teacher expectations and student…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Expectation, Inservice Teacher Education

Dillashaw, F. Gerald; Okey, James R. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 1983
Results of modifying mastery learning strategy to two diagnostic cycles with high school chemistry students (N=156) indicated that achievement of mastery learning students was significantly greater than that on nonmastery learning students. Attitudes toward science/science instruction were not significantly different but were positive in both…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Chemistry, High Schools, Mastery Learning

Brown, G. C.; And Others – Journal of College Science Teaching, 1979
Investigates the effect of mastery testing on student performance in an introductory college physics course at Cornell Univeristy, Ithaca, New York using an interview technique with a sample of 22 students. (HM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Science, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Assessment

Guskey, Thomas R. – Theory into Practice, 1980
Mastery learning is a philosophically based approach to teaching and learning which focuses on effective individualized instruction in the group oriented classroom setting. This article discusses the development and application of mastery learning theory and its implications for teachers. (JN)
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Development, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development

Kleinberg, Sue – Scottish Educational Review, 1979
The "class trap" is defined as the problems which can arise when all students in the class are required to progress at the same rate. To illustrate this concept, a case study is presented of arithmetic instruction in a single class, then strategies to avoid the trap are outlined. (SJL)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Case Studies, Class Organization, Educational Problems

Abrams, Joan D. – Educational Leadership, 1979
Administrators in Red Bank, New Jersey, are confident that mastery learning is the key to their students' higher achievement. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Responsibility, Adoption (Ideas), Educational Objectives
Hereford, Susan McFarland – Engineering Education, 1979
This study assesses the Personalized System of Instruction's (Keller Plan) conventional academic environment capability. The author focuses on some of the issues accompanying the introduction of PSI. (SA)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Research, Higher Education

Wallace, Terry H. Smith – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1979
Describes the use of an instructional model for composition involving five procedures: a rationale, instructional objectives, pre-assessment, learning activities, and evaluation. (MKM)
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Objectives, Instructional Systems, Learning Modules
Dyke, John G. – Aspects of Educational and Training Technology Series, 1992
Final-year computer studies students in an expert systems class were given conventional tutorials, computerized tutorials, and computer tutorials with a mastery class. Both groups using tutorials out performed the control group; however, no statistically significant difference was found between groups using computer tutorials. Concludes that…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education, Cost Effectiveness, Expert Systems
Reigeluth, Charles M.; Beatty, Brian J. – Educational Technology, 2003
Proposes four main reasons that children are left behind in schools: unmet needs, lack of motivation, lack of foundation and prior knowledge, and lack of support for learning. Discusses Maslow's hierarch of needs; partnerships with parents; connecting to student interests; insisting on mastery; curriculum sequencing; brain-based research; and…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Brain, Curriculum Development, High Risk Students

Bloom, Benjamin S. – Teaching Education, 1988
A review of the development and innovation of testing at the higher education level focuses on Ralph Tyler's testing emphasis on the educational process and the objectives of instruction, a precursor to the current trend of integrating formative evaluation into the curriculum development process. (CB)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Higher Education