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Life’s assessment resources have long been appreciated for their accuracy, clarity, and ease-of-use. For this edition, we have enriched our assessment program to offer instructors more of exactly what they want. Along with updating and revising all assessment banks and adding new questions at higher cognitive levels, we have fully aligned all in-book and online content for the Eleventh Edition to the new Learning Outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

The new Learning Outcomes in Life are the core of the book’s learning standards (Key Concepts, Focus Your Learning statements, and Learning Outcomes). Each chapter in this edition is structured around these standards. In the book, Learning Outcomes are aligned to Focus Your Learning statements, which are in turn aligned with Key Concepts. Learning Outcomes appear in the Recaps, where they show students what they should be able to do after reading a Key Concept section. Questions in the Recaps allow students to test themselves on those Learning Outcomes (and answers are in the back of the book).

Online, all Eleventh Edition assessment questions and resources are aligned to a more extensive set of Learning Outcomes available for instructors. This alignment across the book and all assessment pieces provides instructors a concrete way of assessing students on their mastery of the important material in each chapter.

Summative Quizzes

Each chapter has a Summative Quiz composed of 20 questions spanning the chapter’s Key Concepts. Quizzes are pre-built and ready to assign in LaunchPad. Summative Quizzes are completely customizable—instructors can add, revise, or remove questions to match their course content.

For each chapter, LearningCurve offers an extensive set of questions that are distinct from those in the Test Bank and Summative Quizzes. Questions are organized around Key Concepts, aligned to Learning Outcomes, and ranked by difficulty. Thus, students can master the material at a manageable pace, facing difficult questions only after answering easy and moderate questions correctly.

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Test Bank

The Life Test Bank has been significantly revised for the Eleventh Edition, to meet four goals:

All questions are available in LaunchPad and are easily searchable by Chapter, Key Concept, Focus Your Learning statement, Learning Outcome, and Bloom’s level using LaunchPad’s new question bank tools.