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LaunchPad
Help students get better results.
Built around the most common issues teachers face, LaunchPad provides students with everything they need to prepare for class and exams. For instructors, LaunchPad offers everything you need to quickly set up a course (using pre-built units), customize the content to their syllabus, craft presentations and lectures, assign and assess readings and activities, and guide the progress of individual students and the class as a whole.

In LaunchPad

• An interactive e-book brings together the resources students need.
• NEW! Interpreting Statistical Results asks students to interpret statistical data from a recent research project to highlight and sharpen this important skill.
• Which Test is Best presents findings from real-world data sets and asks students to determine the methods used to generate that data.
• LearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers individualized question sets and feedback (linked to the e-book) for each student based on his or her correct and incorrect responses.
• The Statistical Video Series (StatClips, StatClips Examples, and Statistically Speaking Snapshots) illustrates key statistical concepts and helps students visualize statistics in real-world scenarios.
• StatsClips video tutorials combine interesting scenarios, dynamic animation, and creator Dr. Alan Dabney’s clear and thoughtful explanation of key statistical concepts
• Statistical tools, including StatTutor tutorials, Applets, CrunchIt statistical software, and multiple data sets.

Achieve Read & Practice
E-book + LearningCurve adaptive quizzing
Achieve Read & Practice marries Macmillan Learning’s mobile, accessible e-book with the acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing. It is an easy-to-use yet exceptionally powerful teaching and learning option that streamlines the process of increasing student engagement and understanding—and the cost is significantly less than that of a printed book.
 
IN THE TEXT
Extensive pedagogy with thousands of exercises

• Pedagogy  emphasizes mastering concepts, then gives students multiple step-by-step examples of the process of each statistical method, including the mathematical calculations.
• Extensive Check Your Learning exercises at the end of each section of the chapter help students master content before moving on.
• End-of-chapter exercises have four tiers (Clarifying the Concepts; Calculating the Statistics; Applying the Concepts; and Putting it All Together) to help students fully master the content.