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Achieve for Astronomy
Achieve for Astronomy is a comprehensive set of interconnected teaching and assessment tools. Our resources were co-designed with instructors and students, using a foundation of learning research and rigorous testing. The resulting tools for before, during, and after class are proven to be engaging to students of all levels of preparedness for better outcomes.
Features
The resources in Achieve are designed to provide opportunities for students to deepen their intro-astronomy knowledge and problem-solving skills in Astronomy, while instructors gain insight into class performance and comprehension.
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Assessment
The question library in Achieve includes built-in coaching tools--hints, error-specific feedback, and fully worked solutions--to guide students toward the correct answers.
Animations and NASA-sourced Videos
Animations and NASA-sourced videos for each chapter support the text and can be shown in class, online or assigned as homework.
Interactive Labs
Interactive Labs give students hands-on activities in astronomy. Students can set parameters of the interactive to learn about key concepts in a lab-like activity.
Simulations
Simulations cover central themes of astronomy. Students can play simulations or click through various phases to view on their own.
LearningCurve Adaptive Quizzing
LearningCurve offers individualized question sets and feedback based on each student's correct and incorrect responses. All the questions are tied back to the e-book to encourage students to use the resources at hand.
Interactive e-Book
The e-Book offers highlighting, note-taking, offline access and read aloud functionality. It can be viewed offline on mobile devices.
Openstax
OpenStax Astronomy Text is aligned with an Achieve course. The embedded OpenStax text as well as LearningCurve adaptive quizzing is built around OpenStax Learning objectives.
Insights and Reporting
Insights and Reporting provide powerful analytics, viewable in an elegant dashboard, that offer instructors a window into student progress and facilitate lessons that are specifically tailored to students’ needs.
Gradebook
An easy-to-use Gradebook provides a clear window onto performance for the whole class, for individual students, and for individual assignments, to help you to give every student the support they need.
Student Engagement with iClicker
Easy integration and gradebook sync with iClicker classroom engagement solutions pairs perfectly with our suite of in-class active learning resources.
Faculty Support
An Instructor’s Resource Manual, Solution Manual, Lecture Slides, Image Slides, and Image, Figure, and Table Slides and Clicker questions support your success.
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