Tuesday, January 12, 2010

IP&T 682- The 2 Sigma Problem

Bloom, B. (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring,” Educational Researcher, 13:6(4-16).

Mott, J. and Wiley, D. (2009). “Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network,” in education, 15:2.

Thoughts from the readings:
  • Changing one variable changes performance. We're not tapping into potential.
  • Teacher attitude - teachers not confident in student abilities. Excellent teachers take personal responsibility for the success of their students. Is excellence the goal?
  • Reinventing the past... why no progress?
  • Regression to what's easy/practical - creativity, more time-consuming, but most powerful. BECOME.
  • Engaging Learning- "Hard Fun." The human organ is a learning machine. Something happens b/w Kindergarten and 4th Grade, making learning "hard," "painful," "arduous," or "frustrating." There is no intrinsic reward for learning.
  • Econ 110- "Satisficing"- Utility maximization- you will do as much as possible to get as much utility as possible. Butt you will also conserve your resources so you can produce more.
  • Prisoners of Time- You can hold time constant and let learning vary. (K-12) Hold learning constant and let timing vary (Montessori)
  • decliningbydegrees.org
  • Juniors and Seniors doing better in Freshman-level courses than Freshman: Enculturing oneself into the BYU way of learning - Learn how to survive "the system." Very un-even success strategies for that class.
  • The Five-Minute University
* Find at least two articles that reference the Bloom 2 Sigma piece.

Guskey, T. R. (1987). Rethinking Mastery Learning Reconsidered. Review of Educational Research, 57(2), 225-229. Retrieved January 13, 2010, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/1170237.

http://www.springerlink.com/content/h6wvchfgg0u9pdjl/fulltext.pdf



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