We did this because the topics are so diverse that the meaning of "basic" versus "advanced" mastery is not constant.
For example, an executive assistant who achieves advanced mastery of word processing software will potentially benefit from greater productivity and shorter work days.
Other education reforms introduced that year were the Certificate of Initial Mastery (CIM) and Certificate of Advanced Mastery (CAM) that were designed to replace the high school diploma in Oregon.
At one extreme, advanced mastery of the healthcare delivery system might require an advanced degree; at the other extreme one could teach the identification of local resources for medical business ethics after memorizing a 1-page handout an "advanced" level of mastery not much greater than "basic".
With the rapid advances in artificial intelligence and robotics since then, it's easy to imagine that machines are set to gain mastery over soccer, just as they have with chess, Go, and any number of Atari video games.
Students would advance according to mastery and the curriculum would be individualized to meet the learning needs of each student.
Known for allowing students to advance based on mastery of a concept rather than time spent in a course, the university has been praised as a flexible option for working adults.
To support these critical goals, the Pillsbury Institute offers students, entrepreneurs, and faculty an expanding range of courses, programs, and activities focused on advancing students' entrepreneurship knowledge and mastery.
Advances in mastery of new techniques, allowing the design of new products showing exceptional physical properties, made it possible to substitute heavy alloys, expensive and environmentally unfriendly, with nanocomposites containing carbon nanotubes (CNTs).
Hence, it was very common to use terms like Beginner, False Beginner, High or Low Intermediate and Advanced or Mastery, the meanings of which were interpreted very differently in different contexts, cultures and educational systems, such that one person's or system's "False Beginner" might be another's "Intermediate".
In all these buildings he demonstrated no waning of his powers with advancing age, but rather he expressed his epic mastery of concrete with the same vigour and daring as he had first deployed in Belo Horizonte many years before.
