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Mastering Computer Science Features

Personalize each student’s learning experience

Tutorial Homework Problems

Mastering Computer Science tutorial homework problems are designed to emulate the instructor’s office-hour environment. Tutorials guide students through their course with multi-step problems that provide feedback specific to their errors and optional hints that break down the problems into smaller steps.

Wrong-answer feedback personalized for each student

Mastering Computer Science responds to a wide variety of common wrong answers that students enter at any step of a tutorial homework problem with immediate feedback specific to their error.

Optional Hints

Mastering Computer Science provides hints of two types that help students work through, and ultimately solve, problems. Declarative hints provide advice on how to approach the problem while Socratic hints break a problem down into smaller sub-problems.

Computer Science Tutorial Homework Problem

Empower learners

Pearson+

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.

Give every student a voice

Learning Catalytics™

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.

You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do — and don’t — understand. Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly, and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged.

Link from your LMS to Mastering Engineering and Mastering Computer Science

Learning Management System (LMS) Integration

You can link from Blackboard Learn, Brightspace by D2L, Canvas, or Moodle to Mastering Engineering and Mastering Computer Science.* 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.

*Note that LMS integration is available only for Modified Mastering Engineering and Mastering Computer Science.

Additional Features

Imagine the impact of first-day access on your course

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.

Coaching Activities

Coaching Activities are assignable items in the Mastering Computer Science content library, combining the popular Video Solutions resource with a corresponding assessment questions.

Continuously improving content

Mastering Computer Science offers a dynamic pool of assignable content that improves with student usage. Detailed analysis of student performance statistics—including time spent, answers submitted, solutions requested, and hints used—ensures the highest quality content.