This chapter is about mastery. The discussion of this chapter focused on what constitutes mastery, including the different levels of knowledge leading to mastery, and the demonstration and skills that could identify mastery of a topic completely. Also discussed was the selection process for what students will master and the multiple samples of work that can adequately show mastery.
We related to the reading through the examples that were given and also by the overlap of information from understanding by design. We found the section about what is important and what is not important helpful, and the six facets of understanding relevant to mastery. Overall, we agree that mastery can be varied so therefore the way in which we teach, grade, and judge students' mastery should be relevant to the topic.
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This chapter was good because it differentiated between what is mastery and what is simple memorization. I agree with the group that the examples given in the book are extremely helpful.
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