Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today’s Informed Citizen empowers students to use quantitative information to make responsible financial, environmental, and health-related decisions in their daily lives. Students develop their critical thinking skills through numerous examples, explorations, and activities featuring real data. Students use a variety of analysis throughout the course: inductive and deductive reasoning; tabular, symbolic, verbal, and graphical forms of functions and relations; graphs and pictorial representations of data; interpretations of probabilistic data; surveys and statistical studies. Every student has a different starting point, and adaptive practice provides endless opportunities for practice to effectively prepare for class or quizzes and exams. Active retrieval of information with practice questions is proven to improve retention of information better than re-reading or reviewing the material, and students who use adaptive practice to prepare for exams do significantly better than those who do not.
Critical Thinking is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the essential skills of good reasoning. The authors provide a thorough treatment of such central topics as deductive and inductive reasoning, logical fallacies, how to recognize and avoid ambiguity, and how to distinguish what is relevant from what is not.
Students begin with a quick, chapter-level diagnostic to determine their initial level of understanding, and they can use the dashboard and quick reports to see what topics they know and don’t know. Students who fully engage in WileyPLUS assignments do better in the course by more than a letter grade. Auto-graded assignments give students immediate feedback based on flexible assignment settings determined by the instructor, while the notification center allows students to set their own email notification policies to stay on track. Instructors can select from extensive and reliable question banks to create and deploy reading, practice, homework, pre-post lectures, and assessment assignments.
This course includes essay, label drag-and-drop, multiple choice, text entry, and true-/false question types. Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs 2. Bivariate Data 3. Graphs of Functions 4.
Multiple Variable Functions 5. Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions 6. Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions 7. Logarithms and Scientific Notation 8. Indexes and Ratings 9. Personal Finance 10.
Introduction to Problem Solving 11. Decision Making 12. Inductive Reasoning 13. Deductive Reasoning 14. Apportionment 15.
More on Problem Solving 16. Average and Five-Number Summary 17. Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions 18. Basics of Probability 19. Conditional Probability and Tables 20.
Sampling and Surveys 21. More on Decision Making. Every student has a different starting point, and adaptive practice provides endless opportunities for practice to effectively prepare for class or quizzes and exams.
Active retrieval of information with practice questions is proven to improve retention of information better than re-reading or reviewing the material, and students who use adaptive practice to prepare for exams do significantly better than those who do not. Students begin with a quick, chapter-level diagnostic to determine their initial level of understanding, and they can use the dashboard and quick reports to see what topics they know and don’t know. Students who fully engage in WileyPLUS assignments do better in the course by more than a letter grade. Auto-graded assignments give students immediate feedback based on flexible assignment settings determined by the instructor, while the notification center allows students to set their own email notification policies to stay on track.
Instructors can select from extensive and reliable question banks to create and deploy reading, practice, homework, pre-post lectures, and assessment assignments. This course includes essay, label drag-and-drop, multiple choice, text entry, and true-/false question types.
Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs 2. Bivariate Data 3. Graphs of Functions 4. Multiple Variable Functions 5. Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions 6. Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions 7.
Logarithms and Scientific Notation 8. Indexes and Ratings 9. Personal Finance 10.
Introduction to Problem Solving 11. Decision Making 12. Inductive Reasoning 13. Deductive Reasoning 14.
Apportionment 15. More on Problem Solving 16.
Average and Five-Number Summary 17. Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions 18. Basics of Probability 19. Conditional Probability and Tables 20. Sampling and Surveys 21. More on Decision Making.
Custom Course Design and Development in Engage Wiley worked with Jack to devise a digital course solution in Wiley’s LMS platform, Engage. After conducting a needs assessment to establish a course design, we created a simplified learning path for students. Then we flowed selections of a Wiley business textbook into Engage alongside Jack’s original passages, and posted Jack’s video content and downloadable homework assignments within the course shell as well. The result was a seamless course experience incorporating text, video, and assignment content from multiple sources, both Wiley and local. Personalized Training in Screencast Videos Wiley worked with Lynn to devise a personalized training program in screencast video design and production. First, we conducted a needs assessment to determine Lynn’s objectives in starting a video program and used this as a basis for a content strategy. Over several weeks, we trained Lynn in the ins and outs of creating and editing videos in the screencasting software, Camtasia.
We provided detailed design feedback on Lynn’s early video-making attempts. After just several weeks and with minimal time investment, Lynn was empowered to record and add his own screencast videos to his online course. Custom Course Design and Development in Engage Wiley worked with Tobin to develop a made-to-order course in Wiley’s Engage platform. We created a course comprising the Blue Planet digital text in VitalSource; supplemental videos and animations from other Wiley titles; and autograded practice and assessment questions.
Tobin and his TAs use the editing toolset in Engage to add his own new questions every semester and update course materials as needed. Since his course is online-only, the he makes good use of Engage’s reporting capabilities, including their ability to see student activity completion and time-on-task metrics. Custom Course Mash-Up in WileyPLUS Wiley reviewed TSU’s course syllabus with an SME and mapped content from five different Wiley courses (Magal, Rainer, Russell, Reid, and Sanders) to create a custom “mash-up” course.
TSU’s custom course featured more videos on supply chain management, transportation, and general topics and case studies along with algorithmic problems and autograded assignments. This course has an average of 800 students per semester and provides instructors with a wide variety of content to teach from. OER Curriculum Development The Wiley team conducted an inventory of Wiley’s content in this subject area and determined we had very little existing content. We approached this as work-for-hire project: Wiley developed new, made-to-order content per the school’s specifications. While Wiley has no copyright to the content, we nevertheless have the rights to re-use it based on the Creative Commons license.
The course consists of 14 modules comprising text, videos, simulations, quizzes and practice exams. The entire course is available in BB cartridge. Development time: 4 months. Custom Course Design and Development in Engage Wiley worked with the team at UNO to build online courses in Wiley’s Engage platform based on their lab manual content. First, we conducted a needs assessment to create a learning design and course structure. Then we posted all reading content as e-text and converted UNO’s assessments to autograded digital homework for assignment within the courses. We utilized a plug-in with Veracite, an anti-plagiarism software, to auto-check students’ lab report submissions for plagiarism.
Custom Course Design and Development in Engage Wiley worked with Janice to develop a made-to-order course for Quinnipiac in Wiley’s Engage platform and LMS. We started by conducting a needs assessment to determine the overall course design, structure, and content strategy. Then we developed a full test bank with hundreds of questions, including complex algorithmic types, sourced from both the Pratt text’s end-of-chapter and Janice’s own original test questions. The finished course seamlessly combined autograded quizzes and homework assignments with Pratt reading content and Janice’s own lecture videos.
Digital Conversions of Instructor Assessments Wiley worked closely with Paul to convert his paper-based problem to digital. We programmed the problem algorithmically so that no two students would be given the same sets of values. This helped circumvent a long-standing issue of answer-sharing amongst Paul’s students.
We also mapped the problem stesp to Bronx’s institutional objectives, which allowed Paul to extract customized reports for his students and adjust his teaching accordingly. Finally, the autograded nature of Wiley’s digital homework saved Paul and his teaching assistants hundreds of hours of manual grading! An Assignable Video Library Wiley worked closely with Jill to devise a video solution tailored specifically to her needs. First, we mapped the videos to relevant learning objectives in her online course and embedded the videos directly in the eTextbook. This ensured students had access to the instructor’s videos contextually from relevant reading passages.
We added a new chapter to her course’s table of contents to showcase all of her videos and created a pass-word protected video library. Finally, we created assignable homework activities featuring the video content paired with relevant auto-graded test bank questions. CBL-Based Curriculum Development Wiley conducted a needs assessment with the WGU team to determine the custom course’s scope, sequence, and content strategy.
For the final course, approximately 70% of the content was mapped and repurposed from existing Wiley courses, while the remaining 30% was developed made-to-order to WGU’s specifications to align with the institution’s online teaching model. All content was organized in modules comprising chapters and subchapters, each with knowledge check questions reflecting WGU’s unique approach to the subject. The course was delivered in Wiley’s Engage platform and there are currently 2,000 + students with an annual projection of 6500 students @ $60/student. Based on cognitive science, ORION is a personalized, adaptive learning experience that helps students build proficiency on topics while using their study time most effectively. ORION gives you:. Simply by assigning ORION, you can diagnose the real-time proficiency of each student and see the areas that need reinforcement. With ORION’s adaptive practice, students can interact with each other as they think more deeply about concepts at hand.
ORION helps you measure students’ engagement and proficiency throughout the course so that you can easily assess how things are going at any point in time.