What is the Mastery Model?
The “mastery model” started in the 1920s, but didn’t really come into its own until the 1960s and 1970s. The idea of the mastery model is that education is divided into units, and students don’t move from one unit to the next until they have mastered the material. Part of the thinking is that it may take students learning under this method longer to master the initial units, but because they have a thorough grasp of the core concepts, they will move through the advanced units more quickly.
