Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem

Re:Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem by cjblack on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:32PM (#34940171)

I really like simple, reliable, tools like this - just watched the demo video. I hadn't heard of mastery learning before, but now I'm thinking about trying to map some Excel lessons towards this and see if I can implement it at work.

I've found that our youngest employees are coming out of school with little-to-no knowledge of how to work spreadsheet software - even those who are otherwise pretty technically proficient.

While programmers tend to eschew tools like Excel, in consulting (or at least the consulting we do) it's critical to being able to understand how a process works before designing an automated solution. Excited to potentially have a way to share that understanding.

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Re:Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem by trane_project on Saturday February 25, 2023 @03:40PM (#34940241)

Thanks for the feedback. An excel course should be doable. Currently the most general way to write material is to use this: https://trane-project.github.io/generated_courses/knowledge_... Basically a folder of lessons where the flashcards are pairs of markdown files.

There's also another tool to write simple flashcards and lessons in a json file, run a command, and build all those directories and markdown files for you, but I have not written the documentation yet. Here's an example for a course based on a reworking of Euclid's Elements: https://github.com/trane-project/trane-math/blob/master/cour...

But plain markdown files for now should get you going.

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