While Bloom rightly gets credit for the ideas, it is worth noting that the seminal studies were done by two of his doctoral students, Joanne Anania (Joanne Anania, “The Influence of Instructional Conditions on Student Learning and Achievement,” Evaluation in Education 7, no. 1 [1983]: 1–92) and Arthur Burke (Arthur Joseph Burke, “Students’ Potential for Learning Contrasted Under Tutorial and Group Approaches to Instruction” [Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1983]).

