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Effects Of Knowledge Of Accountability In Mastery Learning Programs On Academic Achievement, Goal Setting Characteristics, And Locus-Of-Control Orientation, Donn C. Ritchie
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
During the past quarter century, over 1000 articles have documented changes in student behaviors related to participation in mastery learning programs. Although the results have been generally positive, a debate continues as to the cause for increased student performance: Are results due to changes in how students attend to the information, or simply due to increased study time as a result of remediation?
In this study, a videodisc-based program in fractions was used with fifth-grade students. The videodisc-based instruction was chosen to help minimize differences in instructional materials, instructional time, and instructional delivery. A pretest-posttest, control-group design was used to …