Mastery Learning - I'm skeptical

[NYC_SKP]

2. First, I think their approach is self serving.

Educause has, as its mission, the need to promote the use of data to guide instructional technology, so they aren't likely to promote, say, portfolio or performance assessments unless they're digital or online.

So, I am not willing to accept their definition of mastery, or their approach to measuring it, and I'm definitely NOT on board with their 80% 100% whatever requirement.

Some true and natural masters of a subject or discipline could easily, I'm sure, test poorly.

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