Thread:HMcCoy/@comment-25143095-20140813045845/@comment-25143095-20140814214143

Can a student who uses KA really truely obtain mastery in these skills in a way that will last them a lifetime? If not a lifetime, a decade? If not a decade, maybe they will remember how to perform that skill 5 years from now, 4, 3, 2, 1? How do we really commit a skill to long term memory if all KA is doing is having us wait and not caring that all we could be doing is twiddling our thumbs? True mastery requires practice. I get what they are trying to do. Hate to say it but maybe the student should be required to get 3 in row correct answers before being able to level up. Or at least require the student to practice some more before being allowed to level up.

Sorry, your experience with KA is different than mine. Each time KA introduced new skills in a particular grade, I would go back and practice that skill. Then I would be able to take the mastery challenges to level up on that one (or more) skill(s). It seemed like I would at times take one step forward and two steps back. On one session of 6 exercises, only one was a skill I needed. I leveled upon that one skill but got knocked back on 4 others. Then on the next series of exercises only a few of those skills that I was demoted on came up and I was knocked down on yet more skills. It was a frustrating experience. I will say that the mastery challenge experiences seem to be a lot better these days. I think they have improved the code and exercise selections.

As much as I agree with you, I have my doubts on the ability of the average person to "master" the vast array of skills that one is required to learn in the quest for the complete mastery of the WoM.