MasteringBiology® is an online assessment and tutorial system designed to help instructors teach more efficiently, and pedagogically proven to help students learn. It helps instructors maximize class time with customizable, easy-to-assign, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture.

The powerful gradebook provides unique insight into student and class performance. As a result, instructors can spend class time where students need it most.

MasteringBiology empowers students to take charge of their learning through assignable tutorials, activities, and questions aimed at different learning styles. It engages students in learning biology through practice and step-by-step guidance–at their convenience, 24/7. www.masteringbiology.com

• New items include Data Analysis Tutorials, Student Misconceptions Questions, Make Connections Tutorials, Experimental Inquiry Tutorials, Video Tutor Sessions, and Virtual Labs.
• Pre-built Reading Quizzes allow instructors to create quick and easy assignments in MasteringBiology® to make sure students read the book before class. Instructors can easily edit the questions and answers or import their own questions.
• BioFlix® 3-D Animations andTutorials cover the most difficult biology topics with assignable tutorials plus self-study modules that include movie-quality animations, labeled slide shows, carefully constructed student tutorials, study sheets, and quizzes that support all types of learners. Topics include A Tour of the Animal Cell, A Tour of the Plant Cell, Membrane Transport, Cellular Respiration, Photosynthesis, Mitosis, Meiosis, DNA Replication, Protein Synthesis, Mechanisms of Evolution, Water Transport in Plants, Homeostasis: Regulating Blood Sugar, Gas Exchange, Immunology, How Neurons Work, How Synapses Work, Muscle Contraction, Population Ecology, and The Carbon Cycle.
• The Study Area can be used by students on their own or in a study group. The Study Area includes a grading rubric for the Write About a Theme questions, revised Practice Tests and Cumulative Tests, BioFlix® 3-D Animations, MP3 Tutor Sessions, Videos, Activities, Investigations, GraphIt!, Lab Media, Glossary with audio pronunciations, Word Study Tools (Word Roots, Key Terms, and Flashcards), and Art.
• TheInstructor Resources area includes PowerPoint® lectures, clicker questions, JPEG images, animations, videos, lecture outlines, learning objectives, strategies for overcoming common student misconceptions, Instructor Guides for supplements, a suggested grading rubric, essay question suggested answers, test bank files, and lab media.
• The Pearson eText includes powerful interactive and customization features, such as the ability to search, type notes, highlight text, create bookmarks, zoom, click hyperlinked words to view definitions, and link to media activities and quizzes. Professors can write notes and highlight material for their class.

MasteringBiology student access kits can be packaged with new books or sold in the bookstore (with or without the Pearson eText). Mastering (with or without the Pearson eText) may also be purchased at www.masteringbiology.com