Resources that help your students apply concepts in Texas government
Governing Texas is supported by a dynamic set of tools designed to help you quickly and easily assess student progress toward state learning outcomes. The following digital resources are included with all new copies of the text or can be purchased standalone.
Norton Illumine Ebook
The Norton Illumine Ebook enhances students’ reading and learning experience through engaging features, which illustrate and reinforce core concepts for all students in a supportive, accessible, and low-stakes environment.
- New author videos (coming soon!) at the start of each chapter feature members of the author team telling the stories of real people and current events to help students better understand why Texas politics and government matters.
- New interactive Who Are Texans? and Texas and the Nation infographic exercises highlight data essential to understanding Texas politics and include new assessment questions.
- Check Your Understanding questions at the end of each section provide low-stakes concept checks to ensure students understand what they’ve read before moving to the next section.
InQuizitive
Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive tool that personalizes the learning experience for students, helping them understand and apply the concepts of Texas government to real-world scenarios.
- InQuizitive’s adaptive functionality ensures students receive questions that target their individual learning needs.
- Students receive answer-specific feedback, whether they get a question right or wrong, reinforcing the material and encouraging them to evaluate their answers.
- The Seventh Edition includes new interactive data figures, drawn from the text, to expand the number of questions focused on quantitative literacy and critical thinking skills.
- A Data Literacy InQuizitive Module includes questions that help students become more proficient analyzing visual representations of data.
- An Evaluating Sources InQuizitive Module helps students assess the validity and accuracy of the political information they come across in the media.
Citizen’s Guide to the Future of Texas Activities
Citizen’s Guide activities encourage students to analyze key issues, form their own opinions, and participate with accompanying short answer questions.
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- course design consultation,
- setup in all major learning management systems, and
- ongoing guidance throughout the life of the adoption.
This is the kind of support you’ve come to expect from W. W. Norton. As an independent, employee-owned company, we can make decisions that are mutually beneficial for our company and the discipline—unbeholden to outside shareholders. Although we’re unique, we’re not small and have the service and structure to provide support for all the years you choose to work with us.
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