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Mastery learning is an educational model coined by Benjamin Bloom that requires students to fully comprehend lessons before advancing to new material. It emphasizes individualized instruction, formative assessments, and allowing students to progress at their own pace. Key aspects of implementation include pre-assessments, initial instruction, progress monitoring, corrective instruction, and enrichment activities. Advantages include higher achievement and longer retention, while disadvantages include increased time and responsibility requirements for teachers. Useful tips for the new normal include specific objectives, clear mastery thresholds, demonstration and assessment of mastery, and data organization systems.

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Mastery Learning

Mastery learning is an educational model coined by Benjamin Bloom that requires students to fully comprehend lessons before advancing to new material. It emphasizes individualized instruction, formative assessments, and allowing students to progress at their own pace. Key aspects of implementation include pre-assessments, initial instruction, progress monitoring, corrective instruction, and enrichment activities. Advantages include higher achievement and longer retention, while disadvantages include increased time and responsibility requirements for teachers. Useful tips for the new normal include specific objectives, clear mastery thresholds, demonstration and assessment of mastery, and data organization systems.

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Mastery Learning

Members:
Engaling, Carla
Rosa, Nichole

Mastery Learning is a term coined by Benjamin Bloom who hypothesized that a classroom
with a mastery learning would create a successful classroom. Mastery learning aims to
address the limitations of teacher-centered approaches. It requires students to completely
comprehend a lesson, regardless of the time and resources needed, before moving to
the next level (Chargois, 2013). Furthermore, this educational model necessitates
teachers to personalize the students’ learning experience, allowing some learners to have
additional time to understand the lesson or develop a particular skill. In a manner, mastery
learning empowers students to progress at their own pace.

Implementation

1. Diagnostic Pre-Assessment with Pre-Teaching:

Most mastery learning models stress the importance of administering a quick and
targeted pre-assessment to all learners before starting instruction to gauge
whether they have the background knowledge and skills for success in the
proposed learning experience.

2. High-Quality, Group-Based Initial Instruction:

Every description of mastery learning emphasizes the importance of engaging all


learners in high-quality, developmentally appropriate, research-based instruction.

3. Progress Monitoring through Regular Formative Assessments:

Another feature of mastery learning is the use of regular formative assessments to


monitor student progress and give learners prescriptive feedback systematically.
4. High-Quality Corrective Instruction:

Following formative assessments, mastery learning instructors provide high-


quality corrective instruction designed to remedy whatever learning problems the
assessments identified.

5. Second, Parallel Formative Assessments:

After corrective activities, mastery learning instructors give learners a second,


parallel formative assessment that helps gauge the effectiveness of the remedial
instruction and offers learners a second chance to demonstrate mastery and
experience success.

6. Enrichment or Extension Activities:

Mastery learning instructors also offer productive enrichment activities that provide
valuable, rigorous, and rewarding learning experiences for learners who have
mastered the material and do not need corrective instruction.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Mastery Learning

Advantages:

 Mastery leaning facilitates student learning and often leads to higher achievement
than more traditional classes
 Mastery learning students often retain the things they have learned for longer
periods of time
 Enforces better study habits rather than procrastinating and cramming for tests
 Mastery learning can break the cycle of failure

(Ormrod, 2008, p. 113)


Disadvantages:

 Students who learn quickly receive less instruction than their classmates
 Teachers must assist and keep track of multiple students who are at different levels
of learning
 Extra time may be required in order to provide slower paced learners time to learn
content
 Potentially takes too much of the responsibility for learning away from students
creating students who may not learn how to learn independently

(Ormrod, 2008, p. 114)

Useful tips for actual implementation of the mastery learning in the new normal

1. Specific, clear, demonstrable learning objectives.


We must be clear what we want students to know and be able to do when learning
has successfully occurred. Traditional high-level standards do not enable mastery
learning; greater precision is essential.
2. Clear mastery thresholds for each learning objective.
Students and educators need to know exactly what mastery means and how we
know when the student is ready to move on to the next learning objective.
Historically we have been mushy in our thinking about this topic; we must be clear.
This applies to all learning objectives–the simple objectives that require
computation and memorization as well as the very advanced objectives that
require complex collaborative synthesis and application. All objectives must have
clear mastery thresholds!
3. Clear processes for students to demonstrate mastery.
The processes must be fully scalable: for every student and every learning
objective. This also works to ensure equitable access for all learners.
4. Clear processes for teachers to assess mastery.
These processes must also be fully scalable so it is feasible for teachers to assess
mastery for every student and every learning objective (remembering that some
students may need multiple attempts to demonstrate mastery depending on their
level of readiness and the potential variety of assessment options available).
5. A system to effectively organize and display the data about mastery-based
student learning progress.
The data must be immediately and easily available to students, teachers,
principals, and parents.

REFERENCES:

https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/08/28/what-is-mastery-learning/

https://tammyjo73.weebly.com/advantagesdisadvantages.html

https://sarahperkinsclassroom.weebly.com/mastery-learning.html

https://research.com/education/what-is-mastery-learning

https://www.theedadvocate.org/how-to-implement-mastery-learning-in-your-classroom/

https://www.ascd.org/el/articles/lessons-of-mastery-learning

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