Can a Mastery Learning-Based Education Improve a Student’s Success in a Future Career?

Put yourself in the shoes of an average High School Student. Summer ends and you return to your school day routine. Like the majority of your peers participating in standard education classes, you may share a common realization; you cannot recall many concepts and ideas learned from your previous year. For you, this may likely become problematic as you progress further into the next steps of your subject’s curriculum. Fortunately, there may be possible methods for students to grasp knowledge more firmly. Mastery learning is a possible method that could replace the standard system of education for students and increase their learning capacity and strength.

The term “Mastery learning” refers to an instructional teaching strategy formed in the late 1950s and early ’60s. Benjamin Bloom, an American educational psychologist, officially presented the idea of mastery learning in 1968. Mastery learning’s main objective is to individualize learning by having teachers teach based on the student’s learning styles. Each student will focus on a concept or subject until they have mastered it, and then they will be prepared to move on in the curriculum. Some students will spend more or less time on certain concepts and subjects than others. “What is Mastery Learning,” an article written by Scott Ellis in gettingsmart.com, mentions that,

“At its core, mastery learning enables students to move forward at their own pace as they master knowledge, skills, and…