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 many new tools. Many supplements are available for both students and professors.

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

The LaunchPad can be previewed at www.macmillanhighered.com/launchpad/bergerca10e

The LearningCurve quizzing system reflects 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:

The LearningCurve system 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 using 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.

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A team of dedicated instructors—including Diana Riser, Columbus State University, Carolyn Ensley, Wilfrid Laurier University, Jim Cuellar, Indiana University, Bloomington; Lisa Hager, Spring Hill College; Jessica Herrick, Mesa State College; Sara Lapsley, Simon Fraser University; Rosemary McCullough, Ave Maria University; Wendy Morrison, Montana State University; Emily Newton, University of California, Davis; Curtis Visca, Saddleback College; and Devon Werble, East Los Angeles Community College—have worked closely to develop more than 5,000 quizzing questions developed specifically for this book.

You’ll 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 one 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, and highlights of the series appear periodically in the text’s margin.

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.

A new, extraordinary series of “next-generation” interactive presentation lectures gives instructors a dynamic yet easy-to-use new way to engage students during classroom presentations of core developmental psychology topics. Each lecture provides opportunities for discussion and interaction and enlivens the psychology classroom with an unprecedented number of embedded video clips and animations from Worth’s library of videos. In addition to these animated presentations, Worth also offers a set of prebuilt slide sets with all chapter art and illustrations. These slides can be used as is, or they can be customized to fit individual needs.

The test bank, prepared by Jillene Seiver (Bellevue College) 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.

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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 resequence 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.