What is mastery learning?
Our curriculum is written on the principle of mastery learning. This means that students truly master the content and skills of one unit before progressing to the next. Different students learn at different speeds, so mastery learning ensures success by allowing each student to spend as much time as he needs a in particular subject area before moving on.
Mastery Learning is a phrase commonly used to describe two major (but different) theoretically derived applications for learning; Fred S. Keller’s “Personalized System of Instruction” (PSI), and Benjamin S. Bloom’s “Learning for Mastery” (LFM). Mastery learning as a topic and phrase is derived from the shortened form describing Bloom’s approach. Within both learning applications, a student’s progression through explicit educational objectives is dependent on their level of mastery on an existing educational objective within a hierarchy of lessons or tasks or objectives (Guskey, 1997, 2-21).
April 24, 2006 message from Lim Teoh [bsx302@COVENTRY.AC.UK] I am a Malaysian but currently teaching in the UK. Please forgive me if I failed to express myself clearly in English. I just joined the discussion list months ago and found a lot of useful information for both my research and teaching career development. My sincere thanks to AECM. As I plan to start my PhD study by end of this year, I would like to ask for your help to get some references to my research topic. I am interested in mastery learning theory and programmed instruction; I’ll research into the application of these theories to accounting education. I aim to explore how the accounting knowledge can be disseminated or transferred more effectively to a large group of students. Are there any useful databases or websites that could help me to start with this PhD reseach? Is this research topic outdated or inappropriate for me to proceed further? Looking forward to receiving your advice and guidance. Kind regards, Lim Cove
