Mastery Learning - Corrective Instruction

"To avoid what Arlin (1984) calls a 'Robin Hood' approach to time allocation in mastery learning, many applications of mastery learning provide corrective instruction during times other than regular class time, such as during lunch, recess or after school..."

"In discussing the practicality of mastery learning, Bloom (1984 a, p. 9) states that '...the time or other costs of the mastery learning procedures have usually been very small.' It may be true that school districts could in theory provide tutors to administer corrective instruction outside of regular class time: the cost of doing so would hardly be 'very small',

Source: "Mastery Learning Reconsidered", Robert E. Slavin, Center for Research on Elementary and Middle Schools, Johns Hopkins University, 1987, pp. 7, 9.
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