Education

A study was conducted to examine the feasibility, problems, benefits, and implications of the use of the mastery learning strategy in secondary marketing programs implementing the MarkED Model Program. The MarkED Model Program, begun in 1982, is a professional development activity for secondary marketing educators that uses a competencybased, mastery learning approach to instruction. The participants (now 50 in number from across the United States) are given initial and followup training over a period of 3 years to prepare them to implement the mastery learning approach. Participants also work to develop their local curricula to ensure consistency with the National Curriculum Framework. The mastery learning instructional strategy assumes that most students can successfully master the course objectives given varying amounts of time and instructional resources. Two sites of the MarkEd progra