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Direct linkTara S. Carpenter; Linda C. Hodges – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Spaced practice is a recognized effective study approach that fosters mastery of learning and retention of information. In this paper, we share one instructor's experience in introducing a spaced practice intervention in a large general chemistry course and in encouraging students to continue the strategy in the next semester organic chemistry…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Science Achievement, Teaching Methods, Outcomes of Education
Skinner, Ellen A.; Graham, Jennifer Pitzer; Brule, Heather; Rickert, Nicolette; Kindermann, Thomas A. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2020
Many subareas share a common interest in students' "motivational resilience," defined broadly as patterns of action that allow students to constructively deal with, overcome, recover, and learn from encounters with academic obstacles and failures. However, research in each of these areas often progresses in relative isolation, and…
Descriptors: Models, Resilience (Psychology), Student Motivation, Child Development
Download full textDeegan, Joe – Jobs for the Future, 2018
Competency-based education (CBE) is widely viewed as an innovative alternative to traditional higher education, yet most programs serve only a narrow slice of the postsecondary population. Few are intended for adults who need to boost basic skills in order to succeed in college coursework. However, if designed with the needs of a broader range of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, College Students, College Readiness, Mastery Learning
Redding, Sam – Center on Innovations in Learning, Temple University, 2014
A chief purpose of schooling is for students to master the knowledge and skills contained in the curriculum. Schools, however, can also intentionally build personal competencies that are necessary for students' success in school, the purposeful navigation of life's challenges, and the pursuit of personal interests and ambitions. A personal…
Descriptors: Competence, Capacity Building, Mastery Learning, Prior Learning
Krause, Jerry L. – 1982
In fall 1980, a self-paced, individualized, mastery learning approach was adopted at Hibbing Community College for four chemistry courses in order to increase student performance and success and to provide scheduling flexibility for adult students with outside commitments. While both the traditional approach used prior to fall 1980 and the new…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Chemistry, Comparative Analysis
Caponigri, Rocco S.; And Others – 1981
Efforts to institutionalize Bloom's Mastery Learning Concept at the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC) are described. Information on the City Colleges and the adaptation of mastery learning are presented, and the growth of the project in five phases beginning in 1972 is sketched. The optimal pattern for mastery learning consists of a series of small…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Standards, Community Colleges
