1. Pearson MyLabs and Mastering Tutorial & Assessment Programs
Helping you and your students find out what you don’t know
Helping you learn what you need, when you need it.
Promoting research in student efficacy
What’s New in Product Development Greg Tobin Mary Ann Perry

2. Contents Introduction to Pearson MyLabs New Products this Year
MyMathLab for eCollege
MyMathTest
Closer Look at Online Analysis & Reporting
Mastering
MyMathLab

3. Pearson Themes
Excellence in Online Products: Proven Content, Efficacy, Ease of Use, System Performance
Service & Support: Support is a core value - Increasing program and institutional services
Partnership with Campus, Faculty, Students
A Global Perspective

4. Discipline-Specific Development

5. Using MyLabs with Campus Systems

6. MyMathLab Has Led the Way
MyMath in CourseCompas
MyMathLab for Blackboard
MyMathLab for Vista
Newest addition: MyMathLab for eCollege

7. eCollege Recently acquired by Pearson
Nationally hosted, on-demand course management system, bundled with Program Administration System and services
eLearning solutions to post-secondary and K-12 programs
Leading choice for online programs
Premium choice for emporium or hybrid on-campus courses
24/7 Support

8. Campus management of all courses in eCollege
for
Single log in to campus eCollege for all MML content
Campus management of all courses in eCollege
Campus management of all student enrollment
One-time student access code entry or purchase
Complete MyMathLab experience
MML and eCollege gradebook integration: Scores from MML pass to eCollege gradebook
24/7 Support - administrators, faculty, students

9. MyMathLab for eCollege - Home
MML-eCollege courses include the same MyMathLab features

10. MyMathLab Homework Assignments
Students access MyMathLab homework assignments from the eCollege course

11. Doing Homework in MyMathLab
Easy math palette
Free Response exercises
Multimedia learning aids

12. MyMathLab Instructor Tools
The MyMathLab instructor tools are all accessible from the eCollege course (Instructor tools are unavailable to students)

13. MyMathLab Gradebook
The MyMathLab gradebook is available with detailed tracking, reporting, and grade management features

14. MML-eCollege Integrated Gradebook
The MyMathLab and eCollege gradebooks can be synchronized for management of scores in the eCollege gradebook.

15. MyMathTest - Placement with Diagnostics & Practice

17. MyMathTest A testing and placement tool
Assesses students’ strengths and knowledge gaps
Also for short-term refresher courses
Not text specific

18. Create a MyMathTest Program

19. Students Take Test

20. Check Grades & Place Students

21. Place Student

22. Personal Study PLan

23. Access & Purchase Model
Six-week subscription
Bookstore
Online purchase
Institution Purchase

24. A Look at Analysis & Reporting

25. MasteringBiology Student Home:
Students click on Assignment List to do homework

26. Option to print; work off line
MasteringBiology’s List of Assignments
Student clicks on Homework Assignment

27. MasteringBiology’s Current Assignment Student clicks an Item to begin

28. This Tutorial Reviews Cellular Respiration
Student has the option to watch the BioFlix 3D Animation

29. BioFlix: 3D Animations
BioFlix\ProteinSynthesis\ProteinSynthesis.mpg

30. Student begins the activity
The first step asks the student to sort the various compounds into their correct bins for glycolysis.

31. Different Feedback Boxes appear for different common errors.
The feedback address the student’s specific error, providing targeted coaching.
Different Feedback Boxes appear for different common errors.
Students can try again or ask for Hints

32. Student selects just the amount of help she needs.
Hints break the question down in to simpler parts, the way you would during office hours
Students can choose just the amount of coaching that they need. A smart student may never use a hint; thereby completing her homework quickly and efficiently. A struggling student may need to open every hint. Any student in between may self-select hints to provide just the right amount of scaffolding she needs to solve the question.
Many of the Hints are Socratic in nature, emulating the Instructor / Student office hour experience.

33. Student is successfully coached to the correct answer
Follow up reinforces learning
CORRECT

34. Tutorials use Answer Types unique to each discipline
Draw Molecules or Lewis Structures
Sort Items
Mastering Tools Match the Needs of Each Discipline
Each Mastering product has tools unique to its discipline. For example, chemistry requires building molecules or Lewis Structures. Every Item is graded and reported to an Instructor’s Gradebook.
Enter Chemical Equations

35. Click on Student’s Score, See time on task, show all work
Check class performance at a glance – shading shows students below class avg
The Mastering Gradebook highlights in shades of pink to red the students below class average. This OPTIONAL color coding lets you identify struggling students quickly. Horizotal line? Student having problems. Vertical line: class stuggling.
Click on an Individual Student’s Score to see her work.
Click on Student’s Score,
See time on task, show all work

36. The most difficult problems The top student performers.
Diagnostics-At-A-Glance: Instructors may customize data into easy-to-view graphs. They see students who are under performing, the easiest question, or the problem that took the most time.
Click on a Student’s Name or Question Title to drill down for more data
7 different customizable graphs let you see the data quickly. Find out who the struggling students; find out which problem took the longest, was the hardest…
The most difficult problems
The top student performers.
(You can sort to reverse the order.)

37. Compare Your Class Data to System Statistics: Difficulty and Duration
Color Bar Statistics:
System Average: My Class Average:
Green: 99% Solved the Item 99% Solved the Item
Red: 1% Gave Up 1% Gave Up
Orange: Avg of 3.62 Wrong Answers per student Avg 2.85 Wrong Answers
Yellow: Avg of 0.85 per student Used Hints Avg 0.65 Used Hints
Optional Views to compare your Class to National Statistics.

38. MyMathLab Analysis & Reporting

39. Course Design Based on Learning Outcomes

40. You create assessments based on course learning outcomes

41. Students take a test, Study Plan is generated – by objective

42. Pre-Test Item Analysis – Most objectives not mastered

43. Post Test Item Analysis – Most Objectives Are Mastered

44. Export Multiple Sections at Once – Reporting Course Outcomes

45. Thank you!