See how Mastering Chemistry helps students master key concepts, build problem-solving skills, and improve results.
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.
The Chemistry Diagnostic assesses your students' levels of understanding in the context of math relevant to their chemistry course and creates personalized plans to help them remediate the math skills necessary to succeed in the chemistry sequence. The Chemistry Diagnostic makes it easy for them to see where they're struggling with key prerequisite math skills, so they study what they don’t know — not what they’ve already mastered.
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.
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.
Adaptive Follow-Ups provide targeted practice and coaching to help students master the material. Each assignment is broken into sets of questions that target gaps in understanding based on the student's past performance on course work to date, including homework, tests, and quizzes. Available for select titles.
Interactive Pre-lecture videos provide an introduction to key topics in each chapter. Embedded assessments force students to engage with the content and retrieve information while gradebook analytics help instructors identify misconceptions before lecture.
The Organic Chemistry Drawing Tool provides a more intuitive way to draw chemical structures. Now JAVA free, the Organic Chemistry Drawing Tool makes it easier for students to input answers and receive feedback—creating less confusion about drawing and more questions about chemistry itself.
Enhanced End-of-Chapter Questions provide instructional support when and where students need it, and include links to the eText, math remediation and wrong-answer feedback for homework assignments.
Tutorial Problems guide students through the toughest topics, providing an opportunity to learn from their mistakes. Hints and Feedback offer instruction similar to what students experience in an office hours visit, allowing them to make mistakes without being given the answer.
You can link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to Mastering Chemistry.* 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 Chemistry.
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.
Organic Chemistry Tutorials in Mastering Chemistry pinpoint errors by assessing the logic and accuracy of the student’s answers. Individual evaluators written and linked to each problem by organic chemists look at the validity of the student’s entry and generates error-specific feedback based on information received from a JChem database about the nature of the structure or mechanism.
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.
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.
Chemistry Primer tutorial series helps students who struggle with the math and chemistry skills needed to succeed in their first college chemistry course. Instructors can assign prebuilt modules in a boot-camp style approach or as just-in-time remediation before each chapter. Available for General Chemistry 1 & 2, Organic Chemistry 1 & 2, General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry, and Intro/Prep Chemistry courses.
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.
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.
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.
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.