Mastery Learning - Learning Check

What is a formative assessment used for?

• Checking for understanding

• Checking for mastery

• Placing students

Bloom's system of mastery learning emphasizes ...

• allowing learners to learn at their own pace by jumping to any unit they find interesting

• allowing learners to learn at their own pace by giving enough time for learner to master a topic before moving to the next

• allowing learners to learn at their own pace by giving an opportunity to master a topic then quickly moving to the next despite unsuccessful mastery

• allowing learners to learn at their own pace by finishing as many units as possibly in a certain time frame.

Which of the following are elements of mastery learning?

• Enrichment/Extension

• Formative Assessment

• Differentiated Instruction

• Corrective Instruction

• Feedback

All of this is related to Mastery learning except?

• competition with each other

• focus on mastering the unit

• lesson time for one topic is not fixed

• multiple opportunities to prove mastery

In MBL systems, What is used to move students toward mastery?

• grading for completion

• continuous feedback

• playing the game of school

• getting extra credit

In MBL systems, what is the primary purpose of grades?

• sorting and selecting

• motivation and punishment

• communication about achievement compared to other students

• communication about achievement compared to set standards

Which is the correct terminology?

• competency-based

• standards-based

• mastery-based

• proficiency-based

• They are all names for one general approach

What is a primary component of Mastery Learning?

• a combination of assimilation and accommodation

• cognitive thinking

• students move onto the next subject once everyone has mastered it

• students move onto the next subject once the individual has mastered it

Formative Assessment provides data on how students are performing at a particular point in time and can determine...

• mastery

• the need to reteach a skill

• aptitude

• mastery or need to reteach a skill

Where did mastery learning stem from?

• Benjamin Bloom

• Common Core Learning Standards

• Dewey, Vygotsky, & Piaget

• Danielson

• Webb Depth of Knowledge