Success in these jobs doesn't depend on mastery of one uniform body of knowledge as measured by standardized tests.
Wikipedia summarizes it: "The average student tutored one-to-one using mastery learning techniques performed two standard deviations better than students who learn via conventional instructional methods — that is, "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class".
Unlike everything else I've learned to do in midlife, driving negated the usual path of learning: the incremental steps, the breaking down and building up of parts, the curve we go up as one small mastery follows another.
The game of Go is similar to chess, and is particularly suited to individuals interested in how a simple game can prove fascinating enough to inspire one to mastery.
From a theoretical perspective, the observed declines in self-efficacy are not surprising and are consistent with Bandura's (1986 , 1997 postulations that self-efficacy beliefs are most influenced by the quality of one's mastery experiences.
To put it another way, nearly all the students (98percentt) who were educated with one-on-one mentorship and mastery learning did as well as the average student in the comparable classroom setting.
While online mentorship addresses many of the issues identified by Bloom, online environments might have negative trade-offs that neutralize the benefits of one-on-one mentorship and mastery learning.
The term "2 Sigma" comes from the results of the study, which showed that students who were provisioned with a combination of one-on-one mentorship and mastery learning performed two standard deviations ("sigma") higher than students in a conventional classroom setting.
As more and more superficially ambitious productions reach our screens, billed as serious fare taking on critical issues of history and society, the gap between technical and artistic mastery on one hand, and intellectual and linguistic depth on the other, has widened considerably.
In "The Birth of Tragedy," published in 1872, he questioned the foundations of Western rationalism as exemplified by Socrates and the plays of Euripides, espousing a new kind of morality, one based on the mastery of the passions, not their extirpation through religion.
