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Mastering Genetics Features

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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Coach students to better understand current key topics

New - Tutorials on CRISPR

New tutorials help students learn about CRISPR, covering the CRISPR mechanism in bacteria, applications of CRISPR as a powerful gene editing tool, and ethical considerations of using CRISPR. All tutorials in Mastering Genetics provide students with coaching via specific wrong answer responses keyed to particular errors, and hints that students can access to get unstuck.

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.

Choose from a bank of unique, assignable practice problems

Additional Practice Problems

Choose from approximately 140 new assignable practice problems. These questions, only available in Mastering Genetics, include coaching and feedback and are not duplicated elsewhere in the end-of-chapter problem sets, test bank, Study Area, or solutions manual.

Assess students' problem-solving skills

A variety of auto-graded problem types

Assess your students' problem-solving skills using a wide variety of auto-graded problem types, including sorting, labeling, entering numerical information, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank. Select texts include Enhanced End-of-chapter problems with hints and feedback to scaffold the process of problem-solving.

Bring key figures to life

Figure Walkthrough Videos

Figure Walkthroughs bring key figures from the text to life with animation and narration. This feature helps students integrate their learning and provides a framework for understanding the text's art. These are assignable in Mastering Genetics and include related assessments.

Available for Concepts of Genetics, 12th Edition by Klug, Cummings, et al.

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Figure Walkthrough

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Help students interpret figures

NEW - Visualizing Genetics Videos

Visualizing Genetics Videos strengthen a student’s ability to critically interpret figures and apply information. This feature walks students through identifying what is shown in a figure and applying the information, providing context for where it will be used in the future.

Available for Genetics Analysis, 3rd Edition by Sanders & Bowman

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Link from your LMS to Mastering Genetics

Link from your LMS to Mastering Genetics

Learning Management System (LMS) Integration

You can link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to Mastering Genetics.* 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 Genetics.

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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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