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formats and deliver it to you in the way that best suits the needs of you, your students, and your institution. Oxford Insight Courseware Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades is avail- able powered by Oxford Insight. Oxford Insight delivers the trusted and student-focused content of Child Devel- opment: Context, Culture, and Cascades within powerful, data-driven courseware designed to optimize student success. Developed with a foundation in learning sci- ence, Insight enables instructors to deliver a personal- ized and engaging learning experience that empowers students by actively engaging them with assigned read- ing. This adaptivity, paired with real-time actionable data about student performance, helps instructors ensure that each student is best supported along their unique learn- ing path. Features of Oxford Insight include: • A dynamically personalized learning experience for each student, based on their own learning needs. Oxford Insight delivers adaptive practice sessions that function much like a human tutor for students. The content and focus of these sessions is based on student interaction with formative assessment that they encounter as they work through course content. • Improved reading retention with chapter content broken down into smaller “chunks” of content that are centered on specific Learning Objectives and accompanied by Formative Assessment activities. As students progress through chapter reading, they are periodically required to answer formative questions, allowing the platform to collect information along the way and adapt a personalized plan to help improve their learning. The practice plan is followed by a summative quiz to demonstrate learning, turning students from passive readers to engaged problem solvers. • A clear, customizable, query-based Learning Dashboard that displays powerful and actionable, real-time data on student performance. With the query-based Learning Dashboard, instructors can quickly answer questions like: ○ How often are my students visiting the course? • Developed with a learning-science-based course design methodology. Powered by Acrobatiq by VitalSource, a leading provider of adaptive learning solutions, Oxford Insight builds on years of research at Carnegie Mellon’s Open Learning Initiative that was aimed at discovering how best to optimize online learning for both students and instructors. ○ Which students are having difficulties? ○ Which objectives are my students having difficulties with?

Oxford Insight for Child Development: Context, Culture, and Cascades includes the following resources: • Research in Action videos: These short videos explore classic and current research in child development. They are accompanied by multiple choice questions that can be assigned (2–4 videos per chapter | ~2–5 minutes in length, although some are longer). • Concepts in Action videos: These short videos highlight important concepts in child development, bringing methods and concepts to life. They are accompanied by multiple choice questions that can be assigned (1–2 videos per chapter | ~2–3 minutes in length). • Cascades videos: These short videos, featuring the author, complement end-of-chapter sections on Developmental Cascades, emphasizing key points related to these important concepts (1 video per chapter| 3–5 minutes in length). • Context and Culture videos: These short videos, featuring the author, complement selected context and culture sections in chapters to emphasize key points (1–2 videos per chapter | ~3 minutes in length). • Data in Action: These interactive graphs enable students to manipulate independent and dependent variables relevant to chapter topics to see associations change in real time. For example, students will see side-by-side bar graphs representing 2 children high or low on an independent variable, with bar values rising or falling for the dependent variable of academic performance. Then, students can manipulate variables such as “motivation” or “stereotype threat,” which will change values on academic performance in line with the selected variable (e.g., bars representing performance will be high for the group high in motivation but low for those low in motivation). After observing effects, students will respond to multiple choice questions that can be assigned. Ancillaries for Instructors An extensive and thoughtful ancillary program offers instructors everything they need to prepare their course and lectures and to assess student progress, including suggested answers to the book’s Check Your Under- standing questions, an instructor ’s manual, lecture slides, figure slides, concepts in action clicker slides, and a test bank in Word, Respondus, and Common Cartridge formats.