Implementing Mastery Learning

by Thomas R. Guskey

The definitive classic―updated for our times. One of the most widely researched and proven-effective education methodologies in existence, mastery learning laid the foundation for today’s most promising teaching methods, providing a direct challenge to traditional approaches that have perpetuated inequities for generations of children. This timely new edition of the foremost practical guide

Genres: Education

328 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1984

Reviews

[Gordon Eldridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book outlines processes for implementing mastery learning in a classroom or school from the planning through to managing and evaluating the success of mastery learning. The book is clearly written with concrete guidance and lots of useful templates and examples. The downside is the repetition. The managing stage repeats much of the information from the planning stage, for example, often using quite similar language. The redundancy makes the book unnecessarily long and at some points tedious. Having said that.... it is an excellent initial guide for any teacher or school who wants to understand what mastery learning is and implement it in their context.

[Kate Pfeifer Burstein · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I definitely took away a few practical ideas from this text, I found a lot of this book to be more antiquated and/or geared towards teachers newer to the profession. This is definitely a good resource for reconsidering entire assessment processes.

[Lauren (runningonwords) · Rating 3 out of 5]

A helpful 101 book for mastery learning exploring the history and implementation of the pedagogy. Gusky gets a bit repetitive and specific without getting granular, which actually felt frustrating when I was hoping for more details.