How Children Develop - Tapa dura

With How Children Develop, students get an up-to-date, topically-organized introduction to child development, presented by researchers and teachers who themselves are guiding the field into new directions. The authors emphasize fundamental principles, enduring themes, and important recent studies, avoiding excessive detail and making typically difficult topics easier to grasp. This multi-media pack contains the print textbook and LaunchPad access for an additional £5 per student.
 
LaunchPad is an interactive online resource that helps students achieve better results. LaunchPad combines an interactive e-book with high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment options, including LearningCurve, our adaptive quizzing resource, to engage your students and develop their understanding.
 
Features included:
 
· Pre-built Units for each chapter, curated by experienced educators, with media for that chapter organized and ready to assign or customize to suit your course.
· Intuitive and useful analytics, with a Gradebook that lets you see how your class is doing individually and as a whole.
· A streamlined and intuitive interface that lets you build an entire course in minutes.

LearningCurve in Launchpad
In a game-like format, LearningCurve adaptive and formative quizzing provides an effective way to get students involved in the coursework. It offers:

· A unique learning path for each student, with quizzes shaped by each individual's correct and incorrect answers.
· A Personalised Study Plan, to guide students' preparation for class and for exams.
· Feedback for each question with live links to relevant e-book pages, guiding students to the reading they need to do to improve their areas of weakness.

For more information on LaunchPad including how to request a demo, access our support centre, and watch our video tutorials, please visit here. 
 
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Robert Siegler is the Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. He has served as Associate Editor of Developmental Psychology journal. In 2005 he received the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award.
 
Judy DeLoache is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, USA. She has published extensively on aspects of cognitive development in infants and young children. Dr. DeLoache has served as president of the Developmental Division of the American Psychological Association and as a member of the executive board of the International Society for the Study of Infancy. She was recently inducted into the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
 
Nancy Eisenberg is Regent's Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, USA. She is editory or author of numerous books on prosocial, social, and emotional development. Dr. Eisenberg has served on the board of directors of the American Psychological Society, on the governing board of the Society for Research in Child Development, and is the founding editor of Child Development Perspectives.
 
Jenny Saffran is the College of Letters and Science Professor of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.  She received her PhD from the University of Rochester in 1997, and specializes in statistical learning in language development.