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Belzer, Sharolyn J. – 1991
To identify school-level policies and practices and to see if they reinforced mastery and performance goals for students, interviews were conducted with five principals in schools participating in a collaborative effort to move selected classrooms toward a focus on mastery and learning. Interviews were designed to help understand how principals'…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Educational Objectives
Burns, Robert – 1987
Mastery learning is both a philosophy about student learning and a set of instructional implementation techniques. This volume presents 10 case studies of instructional programs identified as mastery learning or outcome-based education. The programs are organized according to whole-class mastery, flexible grouping, flexible grouping/continuous…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, Educational Change
O'Connor, Ann R. – 1986
A description is provided of a project that was conducted to design, implement, and evaluate traditional and guided-practice instructional modules for independent learning of word processing skills. After an overview of the project, the report outlines the following steps in module development: identifying an instructional goal, conducting an…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Evaluation Methods, Individualized Instruction, Learning Activities
Welker, James D. – 1985
A general science course designed to meet one of the science requirements for prospective elementary school teachers at the University of Alabama emphasizes mastery learning of factual content, and is intended to provide an overview of the several areas of science that typically constitute elementary school science. This report describes this…
Descriptors: Assignments, Continuous Progress Plan, Course Descriptions, Elementary Education
Streibel, Michael J. – 1985
Three major approaches to the use of computers in education are examined, serious limitations of each are presented, and questions are raised as to the efficacy of technologolizing education. The drill and practice approach is shown to embody a deterministic, behavioral technology that turns learning into a systematically-designed and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Drills (Practice)
Friedmann, Thomas – 1983
To learn correct grammar, developmental students must practice writing correctly. However, the traditional exercises offered in handbooks, workbooks, and textbooks not only fail to provide habituation in correctness, they actually provide practice in "wrongness." Instead of isolating individual problems, they promote confusion by linking them.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Developmental Programs, English Instruction, Grammar
Spady, William G. – 1981
It is the thesis of this discussion that outcome-based instructional systems (such as mastery learning, individually guided education, and competency-based education) represent a workable alternative to traditional approaches to instruction and are particularly suited to children in Head Start and Follow Through programs. This thesis is expanded…
Descriptors: Certification, Competency Based Education, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Philadelphia School District, PA. Div. of Early Childhood Education. – 1984
This kindergarten curriculum guide for Philadelphia public schools has as its overall goals the development of: (1) competence in reading, writing, speaking, listening, mathematics, science, reasoning, life skills, social studies, the arts, and physical and health education; (2) citizenship skills; (3) career preparation skills; and (4) human…
Descriptors: Art, Citizenship Education, Curriculum Guides, Educational Objectives
Seiler, William J. – 1982
The Personalized System of Instruction (PSI), a system that combines the strengths of basic learning, individual instruction, and personalized relationships, all at low cost, is an attractive alternative for the basic speech communication course. It involves mastery learning, self-pacing, stress on the written word, instructor assistants, and the…
Descriptors: Course Content, Higher Education, Individualized Instruction, Instructional Improvement
Basile, Joseph C., II; Layman, Richard W. – 1984
This document consists of assorted supplementary materials for a conference session on the topic of "Improving Education in America through Staff Development and Learning Technology." It contains (1) a preface; (2) a list of assumptions central to West Virginia's educational reform model; (3) a statement of the session's basic purpose,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), Curriculum Development, Educational Change, Educational Objectives
Howard, Eugene R. – 1977
Competency based education (CBE) programs can increase pupil motivation, provide the opportunity to individualized instruction, and enable the school to communicate better to the pupil and the public what pupils are learning in school, according to the author. But he lists eight traps that lie hidden in the CBE movement, including further…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Basic Skills, Competency Based Education, Curriculum
Corbin, John H. – 1978
The components that one midwest community college uses in its remedial English composition program reflect applications of behavioral theory and include an explicit course goal; twelve small, sequential, cumulative instructional steps; explicitly stated behavioral objectives (based on Bloom's taxonomy in the cognitive domain); three forms of…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Cognitive Objectives, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education
Strasler, Gregg M.; And Others – 1977
Project CIVTEC was conducted through the Columbia, South Carolina State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education in cooperation with the National Science Foundation and has developed an individualized instructional approach, based on mastery learning, for eleven core curriculum courses in Civil Engineering Technology. The basic format for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Civil Engineering, Comparative Analysis, Core Curriculum
Anderson, Lorin W. – Curriculum Report, 1980
To explore the relationship between time and school learning, this paper defines the three kinds of learning time identified by researchers--allocated time, time-on-task, and academic learning time--and relates them to curriculum development. The author cites evidence that time-on-task is related to student achievement and describes two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Mastery Learning
Cotton, Kathleen; Savard, W. G. – 1982
This report synthesizes findings emerging from research on mastery learning. Thirty-three documents were retrieved and analyzed for the report. The documents were concerned with mastery learning research at various levels, from elementary through postsecondary education. Specific subject areas which were the partial or total focus of the reports…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Intermode Differences
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