Publisher's Synopsis
OneKey means all your resources are in one place for maximum convenience, simplicity, and success.
For campuses without WebCT or Blackboard partnerships, Prentice Hall provides all of the OneKey content within our online course management system called CourseCompassT. CourseCompass OneKey Student Access Kits can be packaged with Case & Fairs Principles of Microeconomics 7/e. Bookstores can also order CourseCompass OneKey Student Access Kits separately for a nominal fee. For more information or to adopt OneKey for CourseCompass, please contact your local Prentice Hall Representative.
What's "Key" for Instructors
- Instructor's Resource Center. Our Instructor's Resource Center contains EVERY instructor's resource in an easy to download format. Accessible only by registered professors.
- Blackboard.com Assessment/Test Manager - Create and assign tests, quizzes, or graded homework assignments using the Multiple Choice, True/False, and Short Answer questions from the Case & Fair Testbank. Questions can be assigned, and automatically graded by Blackboard.com Assessment/Test Manager. Accessible only by registered professors.
What's "Key" for Students
eBook - Not only can students now access their complete textbook from anywhere with an internet connection, our interactive eBook completely integrates multimedia resources with the textbook to greatly enhance the student learning experience. Uses the web for what it's good at
Gearing Up - These sections highlight the chapter's central concepts.
- Active Examples and Active Exercises help students explore the chapter's most important points through video, audio, and text.
- Active Concept Checks allow students to test their understanding of the material at the end of every major section, with links back to appropriate coverage.
- ActiveGraphstm Level One - These JAVA-based ActiveGraphs invite students to change the value of variables and shift curves to see the effects in the movements of the graphs. We integrate fifty-five Level One ActiveGraphstm to support key graphs in the text. Not only do correlate these ActiveGraphs to each chapter, but we take integration a step further by integrating them into exactly the right part of the chapter.
- ActiveGraphstm Level Two - These Flash-based ActiveGraphstm ask students to modify graphs based on an economic scenario or question. Students receive an instant response to their answers. If their answer is incorrect, the response will detail how they should have modified they should have modified the graph. We integrate thirty-three Level Two ActiveGraphstm to support key graphs in the text. Not only do correlate these ActiveGraphs to each chapter, but we take integration a step further by integrating them into exactly the right part of the chapter.
- Chapter Wrap-Ups include:
- Summary
- Review Terms and Concepts
- Problem Set
- Practice Quizzes
- Digital .pdf's of the Print Study Guide - Easy to download and print, these .pdf files are identical to the traditional printed study guide sold in stores for over $40. This study aid reinforces the textbook and provides students with additional applications and exercises. Each chapter contains the following elements:
- Point-by-Point Chapter Objectives. A list of learning goals for the chapter is provides. Each objective is followed-up with a summary of the material, learning tips for each concept, and practice questions with solutions.
Practice Tests. Approximately 20 multiple-choice questions and answers.
Application Questions. A series of questions that require the use of graphic or numerical analysis to solve economic problems.
Solutions. Worked-out solutions to all questions in the Study Guide.
Comprehensive Part Exams. Exams to test the students' overall comprehension, consisting of multiple-choice and application questions. Solutions to all questions are also provided.
The Study Guide also points to further useful practice for students using the technology resources available on the Companion Website PLUS
- Digital Self-Study Quizzes - Offers students another opportunity to sharpen their problem-solving skills and to assess their understanding of the text material. Students have the opportunity to answer approximately 30 practice questions per chapter and get intantaneous feedback for correct and incorrect answers. Question types include Essay, True/Fales, and Multiple Choice.
- Research NavigatorT. Your OneKey course gives you direct access to Prentice Hall's powerful online research tool, Research Navigator. Research Navigator is an on-line academic research service that helps students learn and master the skills needed to write effective papers and complete research assignments. Research Navigator includes three databases of credible and reliable source material.
- EBSCO's ContentSelectT Academic Journal Database gives you instant access to thousands of academic journals and periodicals. You can search these on-line journals by keyword, topic, or multiple topics. It also guides students step-by-step through the writing of a research paper.
- New York Times Search-by-SubjectT Archive allows you to search by subject and by keyword
- FT.comT Archive - If your research assignment calls for business-related information and data, then the Financial Times News Archive is an appropriate resource for you.
- Link Library is a collection of links to web sites, organized by academic subject and key terms. The links are monitored and updated each week.
- Egraph and Graphing Questions - eGraph is an electronic tool that allows students to create precise colorful graphs using Flash technology. Students can email these graphs to their professor, print them and bring to office hours, or save them on their computer. To apply this technology, we have included Graphing Questions that require students to analyze information gathered on the web and then create graphs using the Graphing Tool. Complete answers, with graphs, are included.
- EconUpdates - We believe that analyzing the news, from an economic prospective, is a critical skill obtained in the principles of economics class. To facilitate this objective, we provide professors and students with an amazing archive of news articles to use in classroom discussion or as homework. Each month this archive grows larger, as we add new articles, categorized by chapter.
- Chapter Tutorial - A complete tutorial walk-through of the text material which incorporates:
- Detailed summaries of key concepts from the text
- Readiness assessment quiz that tests student comprehension before moving forward with the chapter material.
- Key figures and graphs from the text - some key figures such as the circular flow diagram are animated to provide additional help to students
- Pop-up glossary of key terms
- "Test Your Understanding"- quick multiple-choice quizzes that check-up on students as they progress through the material.
- Graphing exercises - throughout the tutorial activities involving the Active Graphs and eGraph are incorporated for additional practice.
- Current events articles
- PowerPoint Lecture Presentation
