The rate of central line-associated blood stream infections dropped by 74 percent after implementing a simulation-based mastery learning curriculum for central venous catheter insertion, according to ...

Productivity pressures, shrinking training time and a high bar for patient care drove a Northwestern Medicine gastroenterologist to test whether a simulation could fill a growing skills gap. Sri ...

In the first study to demonstrate a direct effect on patient care, an NIH-funded study published in Gastroenterology found that a simulation-based mastery learning curriculum significantly improved ...

This was a cohort study [20] of IJ and SC CVC insertions by 41 second- and third-year internal medicine residents rotating through the MICU in a university-affiliated program from October 2006 to ...

When done well, mastery-based learning ensures that each and every student leaves K-12 schools prepared for postsecondary education or the workforce. Credit: Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for ...

Learning in contemporary higher education is rooted deeply in calendars and time rather than mastery of the topic of the learning. With an inflexible semester or quarter calendar and an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. CEO & Co-author of Mastery - Why Deeper Learning is Essential... Admittedly, this sounds dire. Entry-level jobs are evaporating ...

The research supporting the current trend towards “personalized learning” is limited, as Education Week detailed earlier this month in a special report on growing efforts to design teaching and ...

A big idea driving Khan Academy is a belief in “mastery learning”—that students should show proficiency in one set of materials before moving on to the next. The nonprofit’s latest push to make ...

One of the most popular topics these days in education is mastery learning—the idea that the pace of a class should match what each student is ready to learn, as a way to ensure they’re really ...

Dealing with student behavioral and mental health issues has been many teachers’ biggest barrier to addressing unfinished learning, according to a Khan Academy survey published July 26. Nearly 7 in 10 ...