What Is MyPoliSciLab?

The moment you know.

Educators know it. Students know it. It’s that inspired moment when something that was difficult to understand suddenly makes perfect sense. Our MyLab products have been designed and refined with a single purpose in mind–to help educators create that moment of understanding with their students.

The new MyPoliSciLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed. It provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student. And, it comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.

MyPoliSciLab can be used by itself or linked to any learning management system. To learn more about how the new MyPoliSciLab combines proven learning applications with powerful assessment, read on!

MyPoliSciLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed.

• Pearson MyLabs are currently in use by millions of students each year across a variety of disciplines.
• In surveys of instructors and students over the last five years, more than 80% reported that they were satisfied with their MyPoliSciLab experience, over 87% agreed that it was easy to use, and 80% recommended MyPoliSciLab’s continued use.

• MyPoliSciLab works–but don’t take our word for it. Visit our MyLab / Mastering site to read white papers, case studies, and testimonials from instructors and students that consistently demonstrate the success of our MyLabs.

MyPoliSciLab provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student.

• Assessment. Track progress and get instant feedback on every chapter, video, and multimedia activity. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program identifies learning challenges early and suggests the best resources to help.
• Personalized Study Plan. Follow a flexible learning path created by the assessment program and tailored to each student’s unique needs. Organized by learning objectives, the study plan offers follow-up reading, video, and multimedia activities for further learning and practice.
• Pearson eText. Just like the printed text, highlight and add notes to the eText online or download it to a tablet or iPad.
• Flashcards. Learn key terms by word or definition.
• Video. Analyze current events by watching streaming video from major news providers.
• PoliSci News Review. Join the political conversation by following headlines in newsfeeds, reading analysis in the blog, taking weekly current events quizzes and polls, and more.
• ClassPrep. Engage students with class presentation resources collected in one convenient online destination.

Unique for American Government courses:

• Simulations. Engage the political process by experiencing how political actors make decisions.
• Comparative Exercises. Think critically about how American politics compares with the politics of other countries.
• Timelines. Get historical context by following issues that have influenced the evolution of American democracy.
• Visual Literacy Exercises. Learn how to interpret political data in figures and tables.
• MyPoliSciLibrary. Read full-text primary source documents from the nation’s founding to the present.
• Voter Registration. Voting is a right—and a responsibility.
• Citizenship Test. See what it takes to become an American citizen.

MyPoliSciLab comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.

• Pearson supports instructors with workshops, training, and assistance from Pearson Faculty Advisors–so you get the help you need to make MyPoliSciLab work for your course.
• Pearson gathers feedback from instructors and students during the development of content and the feature enhancement of each release to ensure that our products meet your needs