See how Mastering Microbiology helps you master key concepts and improve results.
Interactive Microbiology actively engages you in each topic while learning from manipulating variables, predicting outcomes, and answering formative and summative assessment questions.
Each Interactive Microbiology tutorial begins with a clinical case scenario that explores real health care problem-solving. The modules explore challenging and important topics including Operons, Biofilms and Quorum Sensing, Aerobic Respiration in Bacteria, Complement, and more. Find and study with these tutorials in the Mastering Microbiology study area.
MicroBooster video tutorials cover key concepts needed to review (or learn for the first time), including Study Skills, Math, Scientific Terminology, Basic Chemistry, Cell Biology, and Basic Biology.
MicroLab Tutors and Lab Technique Videos prepare you for lab by introducing and assessing your understanding of lab concepts and techniques.
Nineteen Lab Technique Videos show proper procedure and provide assessment to ensure preparedness.
Sixty-seven MicroLab Practical activities give students the opportunity to practice analyzing and interpreting lab results.
You can access the Study Area for use on your own or in a study group. The Study Area includes Cumulative Tests, RSS Feeds, Audio Case Studies, ABC News Videos, Animations, and book-specific activities.
Pearson+ is available within your Mastering course. It gives you instant access to your course eTextbook and study tools, in one intuitive interface. Designed for students, by students, Pearson+ lets you choose how you learn best. You can listen to the audiobook, find what you need with enhanced search, and study your own way with notes and flashcards. The app lets you read where life takes you, no wi-fi needed.
Dynamic Study Modules use the latest developments in cognitive science to help you study course topics by adapting to your performance in real time.
As a result, you build the confidence needed to deepen understanding, participate meaningfully, and perform better — in and out of class.
Use your computer or the MyLab and Mastering app to access Dynamic Study Modules. Available for select titles.
Learning Catalytics is an interactive classroom tool that lets you use your smartphone, tablet, or laptop to participate and stay engaged. Simply respond to the questions your instructor posts during class. Your professor can use the results of these questions to help address misunderstandings, start small group discussions, or decide that you’re ready to move on to a new idea. With Learning Catalytics, you can tell your professor what you did — or didn’t — understand without saying a word.
Get Ready for Microbiology helps you prepare for the course through Pre-Tests, Post-Tests with Study Plans, tutorials, animations, activities, and an integrated eText.
Using data gathered from all of the students using the program, Mastering offers wrong-answer feedback that is specific to you. Rather than simply providing feedback of the “right/wrong/try again” variety, Mastering guides you towards the correct final answer without giving the answer away.
Mastering provides hints of two types that help you work through, and ultimately, solve problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem, guiding you to the final answer. Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems, which makes it easier for you to complete the original problem.
Using 3D animations, simulations, tutorials, and activities, Mastering utilizes engaging, interactive media to help you learn the toughest topics and succeed in your course.
