To improve professional practice, educators need sound principles about how learning works to guide their pedagogical decisions, actions, policies, and practices. Such principles as teaching for fluent and flexible transfer, incorporating big ideas that connect isolated facts, and providing user-friendly feedback make learning meaningful for…

Instructive feedback, which incorporates extra information and instruction in responses to students' work, appears to produce quantifiable strides in learning. Peer feedback has its limitations, but can effectively promote student-centered learning, encourages students to produce their work for a larger audience, and frees overworked teachers form…

In this interview with Executive Editor Ron Brandt, Bloom answers criticisms of mastery learning and explains why he believes it is so important. (Author/JM)