MindTap Psychology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Sigelman/Rider's Life-Span Human Development, 9th Edition

Carol K. Sigelman, Elizabeth A. Rider

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MindTap Psychology, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Sigelman/Rider's Life-Span Human Development 9th Edition by Carol K. Sigelman/Elizabeth A. Rider

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Overview

MindTap Psychology for Sigelman/Rider's Life-Span Human Development, 9th Edition is the digital learning solution that helps instructors engage and transform today's students into critical thinkers. Through paths of dynamic assignments and applications that you can personalize, real-time course analytics, and an accessible reader, MindTap helps you turn cookie-cutter into cutting-edge, apathy into engagement, and memorizers into higher-level thinkers.\n\nAs an instructor using MindTap, you have at your fingertips the right content and unique set of tools curated specifically for your course, such as Mastery Training, a study tool that appears in every chapter, allows students to practice at their own pace, and uses distributive practice to ensure that students really learn important concepts and key terms rather than memorizing them. Assign Investigate Development, which allows students to analyze various aspects of the life span, and use presented research and evidence to make decisions about the outcome in these cases. The control to build and personalize your course is all yours, focusing on the most relevant material while also lowering costs for your students. Stay connected and informed in your course through real-time student tracking that provides the opportunity to adjust the course as needed based on analytics of interactivity in the course, all in an interface designed to improve workflow and save time when planning lessons and course structure.

Meet the Authors

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Carol K. Sigelman

Carol K. Sigelman is professor of psychology at George Washington University, where she also was an associate vice president for 13 years and department chair for four years. She previously served on the faculty at Texas Tech University, Eastern Kentucky University (where she won her college's outstanding teacher award) and the University of Arizona. In addition to teaching courses in child, adolescent, adult and life-span development, Dr. Sigelman has published research on the communication skills of individuals with developmental disabilities, the development of stigmatizing reactions to children and adolescents who are different, children's emerging understandings of diseases and psychological disorders, and parent-child communication at a distance in military families. A Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and a double-major doctorate in English and psychology from George Peabody College for Teachers, now part of Vanderbilt University. For fun, she enjoys hiking, biking and discovering undiscovered movies.

Elizabeth A. Rider

Elizabeth A. Rider is professor of psychology, provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. She previously served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. She has taught courses on child and life-span development, women and gender issues, applied developmental psychology, and genetic and environmental influences on development. Through a grant from the Pennsylvania State System for Higher Education, Dr. Rider studied factors associated with academic success. She has published research on children's and adults' spatial perception, orientation and ability to find their way, and she is the author of OUR VOICES (John Wiley & Sons), a text on the psychology of women. She earned her undergraduate degree from Gettysburg College and her doctorate from Vanderbilt University. When she is not working, she is busy with home and yard projects and two energetic dogs.

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MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
StudyHub is one-stop-studying tool that allows you to deliver important information and empowers your students to personalize their experience. Share content from the MindTap Reader and create notes and study guides to help students focus and succeed.
The Message Center app helps you to quickly and easily contact students directly from the MindTap platform. Any message posted in the Message Center is communicated directly to each student enrolled in the course via the communication medium designated by the student.

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LEARNING PATH:

What Do You Think? Students have the opportunity to share their opinion about a specific topic that will be covered in the upcoming chapter through a multiple-choice polling activity. They can then see how their opinion compares with the rest of the class.

Mastery Training. Powered by Cerego, this study tool allows students to become familiar with topics and key terms they will encounter in the chapter. Students can study at their own pace and through distributed practice, learn rather than memorize these important concepts.

eBook for Life-Span: Human Development, 9th Edition. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Investigate Development. Students have the opportunity to analyze various aspects of the life span, by studying presented research and evidence in order to make decisions about the outcome in these cases. They must also defend their decision citing information from the case.

Chapter Test. Students can test their knowledge of each chapter with this 15-question multiple-choice practice test.

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