Re: Mastery Based Learning??

["Paul Camp" <pjcamp@coastal.edu>]

As a student, I worked in a mastery-based introductory astronomy 
course taught by John Safko at the University of South Carolina. That 
experiment has been going on for about 20 years with about 1000 
students per semester. You might want to get in touch with him, 
though it isn't exactly physics.


> Discussion in my department of late has touched on "mastery-based learning"
> in the university physics course environment.  Does anyone know of any
> relevant experience or experiments, especially in the context of relatively
> large student numbers (~100 per lecture session)?
>
> Robert N. Rogers
> Chair, Physics and Astronomy
> San Francisco State University

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