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Animal Behavior, by Shawn E. Nordell and Thomas J. Valone, is now available in Oxford Insight!
Oxford Insight (OI) is a guided and curated learning environment (available in your school’s LMS or outside of it) that tightly integrates the best-in-class, trusted content of the new fourth edition of Animal Behavior with online tools, gradable assessments, media resources, activities and exercises, and instructor analytics. Oxford Insight simplifies course management, drives student engagement, and improves student performance.
Enhanced e-Book: Includes the full text, organized by section, presented in a user-friendly e-reader interface
"Scientific Process" questions: These assignable exercises accompany the Scientific Process boxes that deconstruct a research study into its fundamental components.
NEW! Section Quizzes: "Test Your Understanding" end-of-section formative assessments allow students to gauge their understanding of the learning objectives.
NEW! "Engaging the Classroom" questions: These assignable active learning exercises are designed to facilitate in-class learning activities and discussion.
"Quantitative Reasoning" exercises help students develop their data and graphical analysis skills. These exercises present students with data from research studies and ask questions that require them to extract specific information from the data, understand the relationships among variables, and make inferences and predictions from data.
"Applying the Concepts" with assignable questions: These boxes demonstrate examples of how animal behavior research is applied to real-life problems and human behavior.
Gradebook / Data Insights: Data insights in the gradebook show individual student performance, class engagement, success achieving learning objectives, time on task, and more.
Instructor Resources
Save time in course prep with valuable resources available for download on Oxford’s online Oxford Learning and in Oxford Insight.
Instructor’s Manual
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Lecture PowerPoints: Include succinct outlines of key concepts and featured research studies as well as chapter graphics. Instructors can download these items directly through Oxford Insight.
Suggested Further Readings: Assists instructors in identifying classic, contemporary, and relevant reading from the journal Behavioral Ecology. These readings are tied directly to the concepts covered in the text.
Test Bank: Written by the authors and contains more than 350 multiple-choice and short-answer questions.
Video Guide: More than 100 links to videos are provided that illustrate specific behaviors of the organism, process of science, and short interviews with researchers from the featured research studies to help students better understand and visualize the science in each chapter. Each video link is accompanied by a brief description of its content. Through Oxford Insight, instructors can add these videos where they are appropriate in their course.
