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  2. Mastery learning - Wikipedia

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    The motivation for mastery learning comes from trying to reduce achievement gaps for students in average school classrooms. During the 1960s John B. Carroll and Benjamin S. Bloom pointed out that, if students are normally distributed with respect to aptitude for a subject and if they are provided uniform instruction (in terms of quality and learning time), then achievement level at completion ...

  3. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us - Wikipedia

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    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us is a non-fiction book written by Daniel Pink.The book was published in 2009 by Riverhead Hardcover.It argues that human motivation is largely intrinsic and that the aspects of this motivation can be divided into autonomy, mastery, and purpose. [1]

  4. Jitte - Wikipedia

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    It was carried by all levels of police officers, including high-ranking samurai police officials and low-rank samurai law enforcement officers (called okappiki [citation needed] or doshin). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Other high-ranking samurai officials carried a jitte as a badge of office, [ 4 ] including hotel, rice and grain inspectors ( aratame ).

  5. Professional sumo divisions - Wikipedia

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    This level represents the first break point in the treatment a wrestler receives as he rises up the ranks. From sandanme, he is allowed a better quality of dress; for instance, he no longer needs to wear geta on his feet and can wear a form of overcoat over his yukata. However, the wrestlers are still considered to be in training, receiving ...

  6. Rear admiral (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Rear admiral (abbreviated as RADM), also sometimes referred to informally as "rear admiral (upper half)", is a two-star flag officer, with the pay grade of O-8 in the United States Navy, the United States Coast Guard, the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps and the United States Maritime Service.

  7. Fruits of the noble path - Wikipedia

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    These four fruits or states are Sotāpanna (stream-enterer), Sakadāgāmi (once-returner), Anāgāmi (non-returner), and Arahant (conqueror, "worthy one"). The early Buddhist texts portray the Buddha as referring to people who are at one of these four states as "noble ones" ( ārya , Pāli: ariya ) and the community of such persons as the noble ...