Taking the Mystery Out of Mastery: A Response to Guskey, Anderson, and Burns
Robert E. Slavin · Review of Educational Research · 1987
In their critiques of Mastery Learning Reconsidered (1987), Guskey (1987) and Anderson and Burns (1987) raise a broad range of issues, from the technical to the philosophical. What is striking in their responses, however, is more the points on which we apparently agree than those on which we disagree. Before dealing with the points of disagreement, I think it is interesting to note these critical areas of