New interactive tools help students make sense of demographic data.

Truly understanding families requires knowledge of basic demography. As a demographer, Philip Cohen is an expert guide to all the numbers that get thrown around when we talk about families: birth and death rates, fertility rates, divorce and remarriage rates, and so on. New tools and resources, including the Norton Illumine Ebook and InQuizitive, help students hone their data literacy skills. 

Norton Illumine Ebook

The Norton Illumine Ebook for The Family uses interactives, animations, and other rich multimedia to teach core concepts and theories in ways that support students’ varied learning styles. Embedded Check Your Understanding questions with rich answer-specific feedback tied to learning objectives allow students to assess their comprehension after reading short sections of text. 

• A new introductory interactive, narrated by Philip Cohen and embedded in the Norton Illumine Ebook, walks students through the process of interpreting the charts and graphs in the book. 
• “Story Behind the Numbers” infographics and accompanying animations written and narrated by Philip Cohen teach students how to interpret demographic data. Every animation is now accompanied by a Check Your Understanding question in the Norton Illumine Ebook. 
• Every chapter includes two to three new Dynamic Data Figures that give students the opportunity to engage with rich data sets, some of which were collected and analyzed by Philip Cohen himself and don’t exist anywhere else. An embedded Check Your Understanding question and provides rich answer-specific feedback after each Dynamic Data Figure holds students accountable for the content of these critical charts and graphs. 

InQuizitive

Norton’s easy-to-use adaptive learning tool personalizes the learning experience for students, helping them master—and retain—key learning objectives. Through a variety of question types, answer-specific feedback, and game-like elements such as the ability to adjust their confidence level for each question, students are motivated to keep working until they’ve mastered the concepts. As a result, students arrive better prepared for class, giving you more time for discussion and activities.

• InQuizitive for The Family now includes more questions that focus on data as well as three to five questions per chapter featuring “office hour”–style commentary from Philip Cohen.
• A robust activity report makes it easy to identify challenging concepts and allows for just-in-time intervention when students are struggling.
• The convenience of LMS integration saves you time by allowing InQuizitive scores to report directly to your LMS gradebook.  

Family Inequality

Blog Quizzes  

Based on posts from Philip Cohen’s popular blog, these short assessments are tied to the chapters in the book. Each quiz includes a brief introduction connecting the blog post to key concepts from the chapter, a link to the post, and then two to four questions with answer-specific feedback.