The Learning Path for Psychology Themes and Variations: A South African Perspective includes a broad range of assessment questions, assignments and videos woven around the Reader content, to enable South African students to fully understand the subject.
Chapter Introduction
Thought-provoking Paradox Poll questions at the beginning of each chapter present students with different scenarios and questions, designed to draw students into a topic before the chapter reading by sharing their opinions.
Chapter Reading:
Students can highlight and take notes while reading through the content, or listen to the content being read using the ReadSpeaker tool.
Learn It:
• Quiz / Test yourself Questions revise the key concepts that were covered for a complete topic and test what students have learned.
• Research in Action Video Quiz: The nature of video brings the psychology concepts to life, creating a visual and varied learning experience. Integrated questions allow checking of understanding of the concepts being explored in these videos.
Study It:
• Mastery Training is an adaptive engine inside of MindTap that completely adjusts to each student’s own learning process. The program is designed to help students break the cycle of ‘Procrastinate, Cram, Fail’ and uses distributed practice to teach concepts. By studying bit by bit, students will retain topics and understand them more efficiently and effectively.
• Concept Charts provide a valuable tool for students to review, revise and remember key concepts.
Apply It
Aplia assignments provide opportunity for students to do interactive exercises to apply their subject understanding, and to learn more from the instant and comprehensive feedback.
MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations.
• It automatically grades assignments and tests while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
• You can build and personalise your course by integrating additional content into the MindTap Reader. Control what content students see and when they see it, with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your curriculum exactly.
• With the Cengage Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course.
