Monthly Archives: January 2010

IPT 692R Notes: 1/26/2010

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
What we’ve learned from Bloom Def of tutor matters Mastery of learning = next best thing –> critiques –> control groups, tests Constructivism seems to matter > situated cognition Frequency of feedback Tutoring happens via tests? Small changes? Human potential (and agency) What we wonder about technology platforms what problem are you solving? –>formal/admin/access –>Learning [...]
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Poking at Metacognition and Solitude

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
I’ve written very briefly and meekly shared with a few close colleagues my interest in the role of solitude in learning–especially in context of modern networked communication media–i.e. the web. Recently I’ve begun to consider how metacognitive strategies figure into a view of the learner as a necessarily solitary figure and as a (even occasional) [...]
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3 Articles Orbiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 26, 2010
I’ve posted these annotations to the class’s Google Doc for Jon Mott’s IPT 692R course, but wanted to archive them here as well. These 3 article annotations seemed relevant in the discussion of Bloom’s 2 sigma problem: Cohen, A. (1987). Instructional Alignment: Searching for a Magic Bullet. Educational Researcher, 16:8, 16-20. Cohen reviews and expands [...]
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Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem on Wikipedia

By Jared Stein | Published: January 16, 2010
Wikipedia had no article on Benjamin Bloom‘s 2 sigma problem (1984), and virtually no references to the observed phenomena or related studies, so I drafted one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_Sigma_Problem. It’s little more than a stub right now, but I plan to come back to it, and I trust others–especially those in Jon Mott‘s IP&T 692R course, “The [...]
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Revisiting Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem

By Jared Stein | Published: January 10, 2010
Bloom, B. (1984). “The 2 Sigma Problem: The Search for Methods of Group Instruction as Effective as One-to-One Tutoring,” Educational Researcher, 13:6(4-16). Bloom’s 2 sigma problem confronts educators and researchers with the challenge of improving student performance/learning outcomes by 2 sigma based on a combination of 2 or 3 significant variables in instruction, learner, environment, [...]
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