Closing Achievement Gaps:
Revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom’s “Learning for Mastery”
Summary:
Guskey (2007) reflects back on the many great discoveries and findings of Benjamin Bloom within his article, Closing Achievement Gaps: Revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom’s “Learning for Mastery.” The article discusses the concerns of the achievement gap that exists among various groups of minority students. Bloom discusses his ideas that in order for educators to increase student achievement instruction must be modified in order to better fit the needs of individual students. This is often accomplished through the incorporation of differentiated instruction or small group instruction. In order to for teachers to successfully modify instruction, a clear understanding of students knowledge and learning must be understood.
Reflection:
When attempting to better understand students' learning and knowledge, it makes sense that educators provide students with assessments in order to better gauge their learnings. I agree with Bloom's ideas that assessments are valuable learning tools, both for students and educators. Where I see the importance in assessments, I see equal importance with what is done with the results. My goal as an educator is to never administer assessments just for the sake of wrapping up a unit or learning concept. I have used many of these suggested concepts to help drive my research. As I always strive to use my assessment results to provide students with corrective feedback as well as provide myself with valuable information in regards to student learning. Through creating a foundation for understanding of student’s academic abilities and by providing insight on how to better accommodate each student through assessing their strengths and weakness I am able to create more focused and meaningful instruction.
References:
Guskey, T. R. (2007). Closing the achievement gap: Revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom’s “learning for mastery.” Journal of Advanced Academics, 19, 8–31. Retrieved from
http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=EJ786608
Revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom’s “Learning for Mastery”
Guskey (2007) reflects back on the many great discoveries and findings of Benjamin Bloom within his article, Closing Achievement Gaps: Revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom’s “Learning for Mastery.” The article discusses the concerns of the achievement gap that exists among various groups of minority students. Bloom discusses his ideas that in order for educators to increase student achievement instruction must be modified in order to better fit the needs of individual students. This is often accomplished through the incorporation of differentiated instruction or small group instruction. In order to for teachers to successfully modify instruction, a clear understanding of students knowledge and learning must be understood.
Reflection:
When attempting to better understand students' learning and knowledge, it makes sense that educators provide students with assessments in order to better gauge their learnings. I agree with Bloom's ideas that assessments are valuable learning tools, both for students and educators. Where I see the importance in assessments, I see equal importance with what is done with the results. My goal as an educator is to never administer assessments just for the sake of wrapping up a unit or learning concept. I have used many of these suggested concepts to help drive my research. As I always strive to use my assessment results to provide students with corrective feedback as well as provide myself with valuable information in regards to student learning. Through creating a foundation for understanding of student’s academic abilities and by providing insight on how to better accommodate each student through assessing their strengths and weakness I am able to create more focused and meaningful instruction.
References:
Guskey, T. R. (2007). Closing the achievement gap: Revisiting Benjamin S. Bloom’s “learning for mastery.” Journal of Advanced Academics, 19, 8–31. Retrieved from
http://www.eric.ed.gov/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=EJ786608
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