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References: Mastery, Metacognition, and Instructional Sequencing

  1. Spaced repetition - Wikipedia - Explains the forgetting-curve rationale behind scheduling review at increasing intervals, the core mechanism this chapter uses to connect mastery learning to durable long-term retention.

  2. Metacognition - Wikipedia - Covers the awareness and regulation of one's own thought processes, including the metacognitive-knowledge and metacognitive-regulation distinction this chapter builds its self-regulated-learning discussion on.

  3. Lev Vygotsky - Wikipedia - Biographical and theoretical overview of Vygotsky's sociocultural theory, cultural mediation, and the Zone of Proximal Development that grounds this chapter's social-learning section.

  4. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning - Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel - Harvard University Press - A research-grounded account of spaced repetition, retrieval practice, interleaving, and desirable difficulty, the four evidence-based techniques this chapter's middle sections define in sequence.

  5. Principles of Instructional Design (5th Edition) - Robert M. Gagné, Walter W. Wager, Katharine C. Golas, and John M. Keller - Wadsworth/Cengage Learning - The foundational text by the framework's original author, giving full treatment to the Nine Events of Instruction this chapter maps onto earlier chapters' vocabulary.

  6. Bjork Learning and Forgetting Lab: Research - UCLA Psychology Department - Robert and Elizabeth Bjork's own lab page defining desirable difficulties (spacing, testing, interleaving, generation) and explaining why learners often misjudge which study strategies actually work.

  7. Competency-Based Education - Western Governors University - Describes how a competency-based program lets learners advance by demonstrating mastery rather than accumulating seat-time, the same time-independent gating logic this chapter applies to an entire curriculum.

  8. Metacognition - MIT Teaching + Learning Lab - Breaks metacognition into metacognitive knowledge and self-regulation components and offers classroom techniques such as exam wrappers, directly paralleling this chapter's two-part definition.

  9. What Is a Growth Mindset? - Positive Psychology - Summarizes Carol Dweck's fixed-versus-growth-mindset research and common misconceptions, supporting this chapter's claim that mindset determines whether productive failure motivates or discourages further effort.

  10. Conditions of Learning (Gagné) - Instructional Design Central - Walks through all nine of Gagné's instructional events with a worked teaching example, matching this chapter's own event-by-event breakdown and its Nine Events of Instruction Explorer diagram.