Engagingfeatures and updated content fosters student attention and reinforces therelevance of course content

UPDATED - Fresh content throughout the 9th Edition ensures currency and boosts student engagement. Highlights include:

expanded and new coverage of advances in behavioral genetics, brain development, evolutionary perspectives, and cross-cultural approaches to development
dozens of revised figures and photos
hundreds of new citations from articles and books published in the last few years
new topics in every chapter

UPDATED - From Research to Practice features describe a contemporary developmental research topic and explain how it can be applied to everyday problems. Located in every chapter, this feature helps students to see the impact of developmental research throughout society. Each concludes with a Shared Writing prompt. Almost all of the From Research to Practice boxes are new to the 9th Edition.
Development and Your Life features, at least one per chapter, highlight issues relevant to today’s multicultural society.
Development in Your Life features describe applications of specific research conducted by developmental investigators, helping students to see the relevance of the discipline to today’s world.

Pedagogical tools promote mastery and encourage critical thinking

Chapter-opening material helps students identify key concepts and fosters interest in the content to come.

Numbered learning objectives for each major section provide a means for instructors to evaluate student mastery of specific content. These clear, specific learning objects help students direct their study most effectively and efficiently, and also enable instructors to focus their assessment.
A brief vignette at the beginning of each chapter describes an individual or situation that is relevant to the basic developmental issues being discussed in the chapter. These engaging chapter-opening prologues introduce students to the real-world implications of the chapter topic.
Looking Ahead sections at the beginning of each chapter orientate readers to the topics to be covered, bridging the chapter-opening prologue with the remainder of the chapter.

Three module review sections interspersed throughout each chapter recap the main points.
Journal Prompts elicit critical thinking about the subject matter through written responses.
Career references throughout the text help students grasp the applicability of the material to a variety of professions, including education, nursing, social work, and health-care providers.
A running glossary offers students definitions of key terms in the margins of the page on which the term is presented initially.
End-of-chapter material helps students review what they’ve learned and enables them to synthesize concepts.

Keyed to the chapter’s learning objectives, a Looking Back summary at the end of each chapter ties the chapter together.
Each chapter’s epilogue refers back to the chapter’s opening prologue, further reinforcing the continuity of the material presented.
Putting It All Together integrative concept maps at the end of each part present a short vignette and prompt students to consider the vignette from both their point of view and the point of view of parents, educators, health-care workers, social workers, and so on.

Dynamic content bringsconcepts to life

· Videos and interactives integrated directly intothe narrative get students learning actively, making it more likely thatthey’ll retain what they’ve read.

o NEW -A set of carefully curated videos builds on text content,exploring developmental psychology from a variety of perspectives, including adeeper look at diversity and the latest in neuroscience.

o NEW - Mythor Truth and Fun Facts and a Lie interactives make key content comealive for students.

o NEW - TrendingTopic features in each chapter explore cutting-edge research orcurrent events.

o NEW - ThinkingAbout the Data prompts encourage readers to think about what is behindthe data they see in graphs and tables. These critical thinking questions serveas jumping-off points to data-driven Social Explorer activities.

o NEW -Other dynamic learning tools include:

§ Interactivescenarios that invite students into “choose your own path”–type activities

§ Interactivesthat lead students through how a healthcare professional, counselor,teacher, or parent might react to a specific developmental situation or solve aproblem

§ Interactivefigures with drag-and-drop and predictive graphing functionality

· Twosimulations in one, MyVirtualLife offers profound insights intodevelopment across the entire lifespan. After students parent a virtual child(by way of the included MyVirtualChild learning path), MyVirtualLife pivots tothe first-person perspective of a virtual adult, providing a vivid sense of theimpact of genetics, attitudes, and decisions over the course of a lifetime.

· Embedded assessments afford students regularopportunities to check their understanding. The results enable instructors togauge student comprehension and provide timely feedback to address learninggaps along the way.

· Writing assignments — such asjournaling prompts, shared writing activities, and essays — enable educatorsto foster and assess critical thinking without significantlyimpacting their grading burden.

· Video quizzes offer students opportunities to furthertheir knowledge by applying concepts and testing their understanding.Instructors can share videos accompanied by time-stamped multiple-choicequestions.

· Shared media makes it easy for instructors and students topost and respond to videos and other media. Students can also record and uploadtheir own presentations for grading, comments, or peer review.

· The Revel® mobile app lets students read andpractice anywhere, anytime, on any device — online and off. It syncs workacross all registered devices automatically, allowing learners to togglebetween phone, tablet, and laptop as they move through their day.

· The audio playlist lets students listen and learnas they go.

Actionable insights helpimprove results

· The educator dashboard offers an at-a-glance lookat overall class performance. It helps instructors identify and contactstruggling and low-activity students, ensuring that the class stays onpace.

· The enhanced grades view provides detailedinsights on student performance, from specific assignments to individualstudent scores.

· LMS integration provides institutions,instructors, and students easy access to their Revel courses via BlackboardLearn™, Canvas™, Brightspace by D2L™, and Moodle™. Single sign-on lets studentsaccess Revel on their first day.

Development Across the Life Span, Global Edition, 9th edition

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