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Mastering is the most effective and widely used online homework, tutorial, and assessment system for the sciences. It delivers self-paced tutorials that focus on your course objectives, provide individualized coaching, and respond to each student's progress. Mastering helps instructors maximize class time with easy-to-assign, customizable, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture or lab. Specific Features of MasteringA&P include: For holding students accountable for reading their textbook and learning basic A&P concepts: * Reading Questions keep students on track and are easily assignable in pre-built quizzes for quick set-up and delivery. * Art-Based Questions are conceptual questions related to the art in the textbook, and coach students with wrong-answer feedback. * Art Labeling and Ranking/Sorting Questions are drag and drop activities that allow students to assess their knowledge of terms and structures as well as the order of steps and elements involved in physiological processes.
* Test Bank questions have been heavily revised with up to 600 new questions to help professors better assess their students. For coaching students in learning the most challenging topics in the A&P course: * 21 new, Assignable Focus Figure Tutorials guide students through key parts of each Focus Figure, assessing their understanding of the major concepts through a variety of coaching tools-multiple choice questions with hints and specific wrong-answer feedback, with interactive ranking and sorting exercises and with labeling activities. * 20 new, assignable Interactive Physiology(r) Coaching Activities have been added to the Item Library for a total of 40. * New A&P Flix(TM) 3D Animation Coaching Activities present tough to understand difficult topics in a visual way that helps students more easily "get it" than from traditional 2D animations. The accompanying questions come with wrong-answer feedback and hints in order to coach the students to successful understanding of the topic. (17 total). Twelve selected BioFlix(r) coaching activities are also included.
* 13 new Video Tutor Activities instruct and coach students on key A&P concepts using art from the book and are accompanied by questions with video hints and feedback specific to their misconceptions. * 16 New Dissection Videos and 29 New Bone Videos can now be assigned as Coaching Activities with hints and specific wrong answer feedback to help students preview or review for lab exercises involving dissection and bone identification. For helping students prepare for anatomy lab practicals and to perform physiology lab simulations: * PAL(TM) 3.0 and assessments * PhysioEx(TM) 9.1 and assessments For helping students apply A&P to clinical situations and problem-solving: * New, assignable Clinical Questions assess students on their higher-order comprehension of the popular Homeostatic Imbalance discussions in each chapter. * New, assignableCase Study Coaching Activities supplement the text's "At the Clinic" case studies and prepare students for future careers in allied health. Corresponding Teaching Notes provide instructors with valuable tips on when and how to use case studies in the classroom.
* Clinical Application questions (under Test Bank) give students the opportunity to apply their knowledge to clinical scenarios.