January 9, 2016

How Startups Are Solving A Decades-Old Problem In Education

storybook In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published research on a new method of teaching, commonly called Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem. The term "2 Sigma" comes from the results of the study, which showed that students who were provisioned with a combination of one-on-one mentorship and mastery learning performed two standard deviations ("sigma") higher than… Read More

Source: TechCrunch