MyPoliSciLab is a state-of-the-art interactive and instructive solution for American Government, designed to be used as a supplement to a traditional lecture course, or to completely administer an online course Combining an E-book, multimedia simulations, video debates, research support, practice tests, exams, and more, MyPoliSciLab engages students and gives them the tools they need to enhance their performance in your course.
MyPoliSciLab is appropriate for the introduction to American Government course. See a list of participating books.
Student Polling. Updated weekly with timely questions, this new feature allows students to participate in nationwide polls on hot topics. Students are asked to vote on questions such as, “Do the major/national TV news programs (CNN, NBC, CBS, etc.) generate mostly soft news?” Results are immediately tabulated and displayed.
PoliSci News Review. Each week a series of articles selected by the MyPoliSciLab editorial team recaps the week’s most important political news stories. Articles are followed by quizzes connecting key concepts to current events.
ABC Newsfeed & ABC Video News Clips. MyPoliSciLab provides an online feed from ABC News, updated hourly, to keep students current. In addition, it features over 30 ABC news videos clips on a range of topics.
Roundtable Discussion Video Clips. Video clips consist of three professors discussing important concepts covered in the text. Key concepts (such as campaign finance reform) and critical questions (such as “Is Federalism Dead?”) are discussed from a wide range of perspectives and viewpoints, providing students with a balanced review of integral course material. Each discussion is accompanied by critical thinking prompts, multiple choice questions, and transcripts (including one in Spanish) for reference.
Debate Video Clips. Offering lively, challenging debates from two sides of an issue, these clips feature two professors discussing hot-button issues and answering pressing questions such as, “Did George Bush steal the election?” Each discussion is accompanied by critical thinking prompts, multiple choice questions, and transcripts (including one in Spanish) for reference.
Political Podcasts. Featuring some of Pearson’s most respected Political Science authors these video podcasts present short, provocative, instructive and entertaining lectures of key topics, followed by essay questions. Current topics include Larry Sabato talking about Congress (Why We Love to Hate Them) and Martin Wattenberg speaking about Young People and the Media.
Interactive Activities. Developed and revised by a team of more than 12 political science faculty, MyPoliSciLab offers over 130 highly interactive activities, including Role Playing Simulations, Timeline activities, Visual Literacy activities, Participation activities, Debate Activities and Comparative exercises, for all the major topics in the course. Each interactive activity is followed by a Test Yourself quiz so students can connect the content with key topics.
Assessment. Reflecting the table of contents of the printed text, each chapter offers learning objectives, study guide and flashcard, along with a pre-test, post-test and chapter exam to help students master key concepts.
Online E-Book. Matching the exact layout of the printed textbook, the online e-book contains multimedia icons in the margins that launch to exciting resources that expand upon the key topics students encounter as they read through the text.
Online Administration. Instructors can easily track student work on the site and monitor students' progress on each activity. The Instructor Gradebook, which now includes upgraded functionality to ensure a seamless experience for users, provides maximum flexibility, allowing instructors to sort by student, activity, or to view the entire class in spreadsheet view.
Guidance for the Research Process. Users of MyPoliSciLab have access to Research Navigator, an EBSCO ContentSelect Academic Journal Database content collected from thousands of articles, organized by discipline and fully searchable. Articles from popular periodicals like Newsweek and USA Today are included as well, giving students and professors access to topical content from a variety of sources. Research Navigator also includes The New York Times Search by Subject Archive™. View full-text articles from the world's leading journalists of The New York Times. Finally, a Link Library offers editorially selected "best of the Web" sites. Libraries are continually scanned and kept up-to-date, providing the most relevant and accurate links for research assignments. Additional resources includes information on Finding Sources, Using Your Library, Start Writing, Internet Research, and Citing Sources.