MasteringBiology is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product proven to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature personalized wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience and help keep students on track. With a wide range of interactive, engaging, and assignable activities, students are encouraged to actively learn and retain tough course concepts.
Assignment options include self-paced tutorials that help students learn essential content and scientific skills using individualized coaching, hints, and feedback on the toughest topics in the course.
NEW! Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules in the Instructor Resources section help instructors efficiently make use of the available teaching tools for the toughest topics. Before-class assignments, in-class activities, and after-class assignments are provided for ease of use. Instructors can incorporate active learning into their course with the suggested activity ideas and clicker questions or Learning Catalytics questions.
NEW! Figure Walkthroughs guide students through key figures with narrated explanations, figure markups, and embedded self-assessment questions that reinforce important points. The Figure Walkthroughs are also assignable in MasteringBiology, with more challenging, higher Bloom's level questions.
NEW! Get Ready for This Chapter mini-quizzes provide a quick check of students' knowledge of basic information needed to learn the new content, with feedback to bolster their preparation. These questions are available as MasteringBiology assignments and as self-study quizzes in the eText and Study Area.
Dynamic Study Modules provide students with multiple sets of questions with extensive feedback so that they can test, learn, and retest until they achieve mastery of the textbook material.
Optional Adaptive Follow-up Assignments are based on each student's performance on the original MasteringBiology assignment and provide additional coaching and practice as needed.
Learning Catalytics (TM) allows students to use their smartphones, tablets, or laptops to respond to questions in class.
Hundreds of self-paced MasteringBiology tutorials provide individualized coaching with specific hints and feedback on the toughest topics in the course. For example:
NEW! Visualizing Figures have companion activities assignable in MasteringBiology that give students more practice interpreting information presented visually in diagrams and models.
NEW! Problem-Solving Exercises challenge students to apply scientific skills and interpret data in the context of solving a real-world problem. These are available in the book and as MasteringBiology assignments.
Scientific Skills Exercises, based on the exercises in each chapter of the textbook, are available as assignable activities in MasteringBiology.
Interpret the Data Questions ask students to analyze quantitative information presented in a graph or table.
Solve It Tutorials engage students in a multi-step investigation of a "mystery" or open question in which they must analyze real data.
NEW! HHMI Short Films are documentary-quality movies from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute with explorations from the discovery of the double helix to evolution and include assignable questions.
NEW! Galapagos Evolution Video Activities, filmed on the Galapagos Islands by Peter and Rosemary Grant, bring to life the dynamic evolutionary processes that impact Darwin's finches on Daphne Major Island. Six videos explore important concepts and data from the Grants' field research, and assignable activities make sure students stay focused on the important takeaway points.
Video Field Trips allow students to study ecology on virtual field trips.
BioFlix (R) Tutorials use movie-quality 3-D animations and coaching exercises to help students master tough topics outside of class.
Make Connections Tutorials ask students to relate figures from two different chapters to make connections between topics covered in different parts of the course.
BLAST Data Analysis Tutorials teach students how to work with real data from the BLAST database.
Experimental Inquiry Tutorials allow students to replicate a classic biology experiment and learn the conceptual aspects of experimental design. Students can critically evaluate the experiment and make decisions about how to set up, interpret, assess, and evaluate other experiments.
Interpreting Data Tutorials provide students with coaching on how to read and interpret data and graphs.
Data Analysis Tutorials connect students with real data from online databases and guide them in analyzing and interpreting data in a controlled environment.
Misconception Questions address common student misconceptions related to each chapter's content, providing feedback to students to help them correct their understanding. The instructor can see which common misconceptions are proving most challenging for the class as a whole.
Video Tutor Sessions walk students through tough topics with clearly explained visuals and demonstrations.
MasteringBiology (TM) Virtual Labs online environment promotes critical thinking skills using virtual experiments and explorations that may be difficult to perform in a wet-lab environment due to time, cost, or safety concerns.
In addition, Reading Quiz Questions and over 3,000 Test Bank Questions are available for assignments.
Every assignment is automatically graded and entered into a gradebook. Instructors can check the gradebook to see what topics students are struggling with and then address those topics in class.
The Study Area of MasteringBiology is available for students to use on their own or in a study group. Highlights include:
NEW! Get Ready for this Chapter Mini-Quizzes
NEW! Figure Walkthroughs
Get Ready For Biology
Chapter Guides that Correlate Media to the Key Concepts in Each Chapter
Practice Tests
Cumulative Test
Activities
Bioflix (R) 3-D Animations
Mp3 Tutor Sessions
ABC News Videos
Videos
HHMI Short Films
Scientific Skills Review
Vocab Self-Quiz
Word Study Tools, including Word Roots, Key Terms, Flashcards
Art from the Textbook
RSS Feeds
Glossary
Writing Tips and Rubric
Lab Media, including Investigating Biology Lab Material, Investigating Biology Lab Data Tables, Investigations, Graphit!, and Labbench
Biological Inquiry Workbook Website
Campbell Interviews
The Instructor Resources area of MasteringBiology includes:
NEW! Ready-to-Go Teaching Modules help instructors efficiently make use of the available teaching tools for the toughest topics. Before-class assignments, in-class activities, and after-class assignments are provided for ease of use. Instructors can incorporate active learning into their course with the suggested activity ideas and clicker questions or Learning Catalytics questions.
Editable figures (art and photos) and tables from the text in PowerPoint (R)
Lecture Presentation PowerPoint for each chapter with lecture notes, editable figures (art and photos), tables, and links to animations and videos
JPEG images, including labeled and unlabeled art, photos from the text, and extra photos
Clicker Questions in PowerPoint
250+ instructor animations and videos, including BioFlix (R) 3-D animations and ABC NEW!s Videos
Digital Transparencies
Answers to Scientific Skills Exercises, Interpret the Data Questions, and Essay Questions
Test Bank (in Word and TestGen)
Rubric and Tips for Grading Short-Answer Essays
Instructor Guides for Supplements: Instructor Guide for Practicing Biology: A Student Workbook, Instructor Guide for Biological Inquiry: A Workbook of Investigative Cases, and Answer Key for Inquiry in Action: Interpreting Scientific Papers
Lab Media, including Investigations Answers, Investigating Biology Lab Prep Guide, and LabBench Quiz Answers
Quick Reference Guide
URL: http://www.masteringbiology.com
- ISBN10 0134159748
- ISBN13 9780134159744
- Publish Date 7 September 2016 (first published 9 June 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Edition 11th edition
- Format eBook
- Language English