After teaching every semester for many years, I know well that supplements can make or break a class. Students are now media savvy and instructors use tools that did not exist when they themselves were in college. Many supplements are available for both students and professors. I encourage adopters of my textbook to ask their publisher’s representative for guidance as to how these might be used. As an instructor who has used books from many publishers, I think you will find that Worth representatives are a cut above the rest, and you will be happy you asked for help.

A comprehensive Web resource for teaching and learning, Worth Publishers’ online course space offers:

The LaunchPad can be previewed at www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/bergerinvitels3e.

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The LearningCurve quizzing system was designed based on the latest findings from learning and memory research. LearningCurve’s adaptive and formative quizzing provides an effective way to get students involved in the coursework. It combines:

It combines adaptive question selection, immediate feedback, and an interactive interface to engage students in a learning experience that is unique to them. Each LearningCurve quiz is fully integrated with other resources in LaunchPad, so students will be able to review with Worth’s extensive library of videos and activities. And state-of-the-art question-analysis reports allow instructors to track the progress of individual students as well as their class as a whole. A team of dedicated instructors—including Diana Riser (Columbus State University), Chrysalis Wright (University of Central Florida), Matthew Isaak (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and Jason Spiegelman (The Community College of Baltimore County)—has worked closely to develop more than 5,000 quizzing questions specifically for this book.

You will find the following in our LaunchPad:

In collaboration with dozens of instructors and researchers, Worth has developed an extensive archive of video clips. This collection covers the full range of the course, from classic experiments (like the Strange Situation and Piaget’s conservation tasks) to investigations of children’s play to adolescent risk taking. Instructors can assign these videos to students through LaunchPad or choose 1 of 50 popular video activities that combine videos with short-answer and multiple-choice questions. For presentation purposes, our videos are available in a variety of formats to suit your needs.

Now fully integrated with LaunchPad, this collection of resources written by Richard O. Straub (University of Michigan, Dearborn) has been hailed as the richest collection of instructor’s resources in developmental psychology. The resources include learning objectives, springboard topics for discussion and debate, handouts for student projects, course-planning suggestions, ideas for term projects, and a guide to audiovisual and online materials.

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A new, extraordinary series of “next-generation” interactive presentations gives instructors a dynamic yet easy-to-use way to engage students during lectures on core developmental psychology topics. Each presentation enables lively classroom discussion and interaction with an unprecedented number of embedded video clips and animations from Worth Publishers’ library of videos. In addition to these animated presentations, Worth Publishers also offers two other sets of prebuilt slides: one comprised of chapter art and illustrations, and another consisting of comprehensive, book-specific lectures created by Pauline Davey Zeece, PhD. These slides can be used as is, or they can be customized to fit individual needs.

The test bank, prepared by Diana Riser (Columbus State University), includes at least 100 multiple-choice and 70 fill-in-the-blank, true-false, and essay questions for each chapter. Good test questions are critical to every course, and we have gone through each and every one of these test questions with care. We have added more challenging questions, and questions are keyed to the textbook by topic, page number, and level of difficulty. Questions are also organized by NCLEX, NAEYC, and APA goals and Bloom’s taxonomy. We have also written rubrics for grading all of the short-answer and essay questions in the test bank.

The Diploma computerized test bank guides instructors step by step through the process of creating a test. It also allows them to quickly add an unlimited number of questions; edit, scramble, or re-sequence items; format a test; and include pictures, equations, and media links. The accompanying gradebook enables instructors to record students’ grades throughout the course and includes the capacity to sort student records, view detailed analyses of test items, curve tests, generate reports, and add weights to grades.