You will automatically transition to the Modified Mastering platform when you copy your existing Mastering course or create a new course. Find out what to expect — and what's better in Modified Mastering.

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Empower learners

Pearson+

Pearson+ is available within your Mastering course. It gives your students instant access to your course eTextbook and study tools, in one intuitive interface. Designed for students, by students, Pearson+ lets them choose how they learn best. They can listen to the audiobook, find what they need with enhanced search, and study their own way with notes and flashcards. The app lets them read where life takes them, no wi-fi needed.

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Personalize learning for each student

Dynamic Study Modules

Dynamic Study Modules are assignable modules that adapt to each student’s performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts. Available for select titles. 

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Increase student retention in your course

Early Alerts

Early Alerts use predictive analytics based on a student’s work in Mastering, such as correct answers on the first try. This information helps identify struggling students as early as possible — even if their assignment scores are not a cause for concern. This insight enables instructors to provide support when students need it so they can stay — and succeed — in the course.

Introduce key astronomy concepts before class

Interactive Prelecture videos provide subject overview for exposure to key concepts before class, opening classroom time for active learning or deeper discussions of topics.

Interactive Prelecture Videos

Get students prepared for lecture

Prelecture Reading Questions and Quizzes reinforce important astronomy concepts and ensure that students read the textbook prior to lecture, helping to keep them on track and engaged in class. Pre-built Quizzes are easy to assign quickly and can be customized to match the way you teach your course.

Pre-lecture Reading Questions and Quizzes

Help your students visualize the universe

Narrated Figures expand on the figures in each specific text with narration and animation, and include pause and respond questions to engage students. Visual Activities help build skills in interpreting visuals, while hints and specific wrong-answer feedback guide students to a deeper understanding of their significance in astronomy.

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Provide students with online tools for learning night sky, data collection

Virtual Astronomy Labs are assignable, online laboratory activities that utilize Stellarium and interactive figures to conduct night sky data collection, and inquiry-based labs. Five additional inquiry-based labs are included.

Virtual Astronomy Labs

Gain conceptual understanding with Interactive Questions and Tutorials

Process of Science Tutorials, Self-Guided Tutorials, Ranking Tasks, and Sorting Tasks provide students with a deep understanding of the toughest topics in astronomy.

Mastering Astronomy Tutorials for tough topics

Teach tough topics through a wide variety of tutorials  

A wide variety of tutorials incorporate interactive questions and visuals. Process of Science Tutorials, Self-Guided Tutorials, Ranking Tasks, and Sorting Tasks help students solidify an understanding of key concepts in astronomy.

Wide Variety of Tutorials in Mastering Astronomy
Link from your LMS to Mastering Astronomy

Link from your LMS to Mastering Astronomy

Learning Management System (LMS) Integration

You can link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to Mastering Astronomy.* Access assignments, rosters, and resources, and synchronize grades with your LMS gradebook.

For students, single sign-on provides access to all the personalized learning resources that make studying more efficient and effective.

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*Note that LMS integration is available only for Modified Mastering Astronomy.

Additional Features

Imagine the impact of first-day access on your course

Offering course content through the Pearson Inclusive Access model can help students achieve more by providing affordable, high-quality digital course materials on or before the first day of class. Because all students have access by day one, faculty can start teaching and students can start learning. Learn more about Inclusive Access.

Everything you need in an easy-to-use format

Mastering provides a rich and flexible set of pre-built courses and assignments to get you started quickly. These assets can be used as is or customized to fit your specific teaching needs. The Calendar View on the course home page displays upcoming assignments and due dates, so you can easily stay organized. Questions are now easy to edit and delete for assignments and courses.

A powerful gradebook & analytics

The Mastering gradebook records all scores for graded assignments. Struggling students and challenging assignments are highlighted in red, giving you an at-a-glance view of potential hurdles in the course. The robust diagnostics within Mastering provide unique insight - with a single click, you can view charts that summarize the most difficult problems, identify vulnerable students, and indicate grade distribution and score improvement.

Learning Catalytics gives every student a voice

With Learning Catalytics™, you'll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. Watch a video and learn more.

Wrong-answer feedback personalized for each student

Using data gathered from all of the students using the program, Mastering offers wrong-answer feedback that is specific to each student. Rather than simply providing feedback of the "right/wrong/try again" variety, Mastering guides students towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.

Hints that offer clear guidance to students

Mastering provides hints of two types that help students work through, and ultimately solve, problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem, guiding students to the final answer. Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which makes it easier for students to complete the original problem.

Dynamic, best-in-class content

Mastering is continually improving based on data generated through classroom use, resulting in content that is driven by the performance of actual students. We make corrections to improve problems that have ambiguous answer choices, ineffectual detractors, or tricky language, and continue to strengthen each problem through ongoing review of the data generated by Mastering students.

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