The Chicago Plan: Mastery Learning in the Chicago Public Schools
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Examines the effects of two instructional models on skill development and game play in volleyball. Application of skill teaching and Mastery learning models; Efficacy of the model; Measurement of the Mastery students' rate of learning.
