OBE = Mastery Learning

"In January of 1980 we convened a meeting of 42 people to form the Network for Outcome-Based Schools. Most of the people who were there - Jim Block, John Champlin - had a strong background in mastery learning, since it was what OBE was called at the time. But I pleaded with the group not to use the name 'mastery learning' in the network's new name because the word 'mastery' had already been destroyed through poor implementation. I argued that we had about five years before they destroyed the term 'outcomes', but at least we could get a start and pursue a clear vision of an idea.

Source: "On Outcome-Based Education: A Conversation with Bill Spady", Ron Brandt, Educational Leadership, December 1992.

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