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Welcome to our Pearson Results Library, where educators share real-world results and best practices that transform learning. Whether you're looking to enhance teaching outcomes or explore new strategies, our searchable collection of case studies provides evidence-backed insights tailored to various learning environments. To get started, simply select tags below to filter by platform or discipline. Filtered blogs will appear at the bottom of the page. Please note, tags cannot be combined.

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  • A woman working on a computer sitting on a couch with ear phones on
    MyLab IT homework positively impacts student success
    By Pearson

    How MyLab IT contributes to student success and students’ response to Pearson Inclusive Access/LMS integration

    In Fall 2018, Professor Robert Huyck at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica, NY partnered with Pearson to investigate whether MyLab IT™ and eTexts GO! With Office 2016 Volume 1 by Gaskin, Vargas, Geoghan, and Graviett and Technology in Action by Evans, Martin, and Poatsy positively impacted student success in his Computers and Society course.

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    MyLab IT implementation best practices and transition to Learning Management System integration
    By Pearson

    MyLab IT user best practices and transition to a Learning Management System

    In Fall 2018, Professor Barbara Fogle from Trident Technical College in Charleston, SC utilized MyLab™ IT with Exploring Microsoft Excel 2016 Comprehensive by Patsy, Mulbery, Davidson and, Grauer, and decided to pilot Learning Management System integration to facilitate a seamless experience for students accessing course technology in her Microcomputer Spreadsheets course.

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    How MyLab Marketing can enhance student success
    By Pearson

    How MyLab Marketing contributes to student success

    In Fall 2018, Pearson partnered with Professor Karen Loveland from Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi in Corpus Christi, TX to determine whether Mylab™ Marketing for Marketing: Real People, Real Choices by Solomon positively impacted student success in her Principles of Marketing course.

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    MyLab IT custom package positively impacts student success in the Microsoft Office Specialist testing initiative at San Francisco State University
    By Pearson

    How MyLab IT contributes to student success

    In Fall 2018, Professor Daniel Ciomek from San Francisco State University in San Francisco, CA partnered with Pearson to investigate whether the custom package of MyLab™ IT, Information Systems Today: Managing in the Digital World by Valacich and Schneider (primary eText), Exploring Microsoft Access 2016 Comprehensive and Exploring Microsoft Excel 2016 Comprehensive by Poatsy impacted student success in his Information Systems for Management course.

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    MyLab IT positively impacts student success
    By Pearson

    How MyLab IT contributes to student success

    In Fall 2018, Pearson partnered with Professor Susumu Kasai at Salt Lake Community College to investigate whether MyLab™ IT with Microsoft Office 2016 (custom edition) positively impacted student success in their Business Computer Proficiency – Spreadsheet & Database course.

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    The positive impacts of MyLab Finance on student success
    By Pearson

    How MyLab Finance contributes to student success

    In Fall 2018, Pearson partnered with Professor Kathy Towle from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, NM to investigate whether MyLab™ Finance for Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Berk, Demarzo, and Harford positively contributed to student success in her Financial Management course.

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    MyLab Management contributes to student success
    By Pearson

    How MyLab Management contributes to student success

    In Fall 2018, Professor Irene Wilder from State University of New York (SUNY) at Jefferson, Watertown, NY worked with Pearson to discover whether MyLab™ Management for Modern Management: Concepts and Skills by Certo and Certo impacted student success in her Principles of Management course.

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    Use of MyLab Spanish leads to positive impact on student success
    By Pearson

    From 2012 to 2015, Professor Hector Enríquez at the University of Texas El Paso utilized MyLab Spanish in his five Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, and Spanish for Spanish Speakers courses. He partnered with Pearson to investigate how MyLab Spanish supports his students’ success. Through this research they found that:

    • Students who scored an average of 80 percent or higher on MyLab Spanish homework had higher composition, exam, final exam, and final course scores than students who scored lower than 80 percent on MyLab Spanish homework.
    • The correlation between student performance on MyLab Spanish homework assignments and final course scores was strong.

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    Goals for courses utilizing MyLab Spanish

    As coordinator of the lower division Spanish courses, Enríquez is challenged to meet many goals including:

    • Meet the learning needs of both non-native and heritage speakers while delivering a uniform learning experience that can be personalized
    • Offer students sophisticated learning tools at a reasonable cost
    • Improve students’ overall performance, raising both pass rates and course completion rates

    With these goals in mind, Enríquez adopted MySpanishLab for the introductory and intermediate Spanish sequences and has been utilizing it for over a decade.

    How was MyLab Spanish used in the course?

    The five Elementary Spanish, Intermediate Spanish, and Spanish for Spanish Speakers courses are face to face, hybrid/intensive, and online. Content, homework, and assessments are pre-assigned with due dates through the MyLab Spanish master course shell. Pearson exams are used, and questions on MyLab Spanish homework are similar to the questions that will appear on exams.

    Per textbook chapter, all machine-graded exercises are assigned in MyLab Spanish over the course of (approximately) two weeks. This includes some tutorials and one chapter practice exam. Students have unlimited attempts on homework. In Elementary and Intermediate Spanish MyLab Spanish accounts for 15% of the course grade, while it accounts for 20% of the course grade in Spanish for Spanish Speakers.

    Were students successful over the semester?

    Examination of student results data across all five courses shows a strong correlation between MyLab Spanish scores and final course scores in the face-to-face* course format.

    Students who scored 80 percent or higher on MyLab Spanish homework had higher average scores on compositions, exams, final exams, and final course scores than students who scored less than 80 percent on MyLab Spanish,

    How MyLab Spanish supports students

    At the end of the day, Enríquez’s goal is to help students become proficient in the language. He maintains:

    • “MyLab Spanish has worked well for our students. When our students use MyLab Spanish, they become responsible for their own learning, and they succeed.”
    • “MyLab Spanish meets the needs of heritage speakers with a range of exercises that target vocabulary and writing skills. With such a deep resource of activities and multimedia resources in MyLab Spanish, I can easily customize our course to address the unique strengths and weaknesses that heritage speakers bring to the course.”

    Conclusion

    In addition to helping students become proficient in Spanish, MyLab Spanish also had a positive impact on teaching. Enríquez notes how it saves grading time, it allows instructors to better use in-class time, and it gives instructors the opportunity to see where students’ strengths and weaknesses lie in terms of understanding the content.

    Read the full findings here 

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    MyLab IT has a positive impact on student success and students feel badges give them an advantage when applying for jobs
    By Pearson

    How MyLab IT contributes to student success

    In Fall 2018, Professor Regina Harley at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC partnered with Pearson to investigate how MyLab IT™ with Exploring Microsoft Office 2016 by Poatsy, Grauer, Mulbery, Krebs, Hogan, and Rutledge contributed to student success in her Essential Business Tools and Technologies course.

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    MyMath Lab homework positively impacts student success
    By Pearson

    How MyLab Math contributes to student success

    Between Fall 2016 and Spring 2017, Professor Kathy Nabours at Riverside City College partnered with Pearson to investigate whether MyLab™ Math for Intermediate Algebra by Martin-Gay positively impacted student success.

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    Pearson and Mastering A&P supports student learning over OER
    By Pearson

    How Mastering A&P supports student learning

    In Summer 2021, Professor Ty Bryan at a community college in Southern United States met with Pearson to discuss how he uses and experiences Human Anatomy & Physiology, 2nd Edition by Amerman and Mastering A&P™ in his Anatomy & Physiology I and II courses.

    Ty Bryan finds many benefits utilizing the Pearson textbook and Mastering A&P in his courses including:

    • High quality artwork, diagrams, and animations help students solidify knowledge that will translate to success in clinicals.
    • Better textbook that delivers concepts in a concise way thus encouraging students to read without feeling overwhelmed.
    • Dynamic Study Modules prepare students for discussion in class and help develop a deeper understanding of concepts.
    • Students are better set up for success in A&P II.
    • Top-notch customer support that facilitates a smooth course delivery.

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    Why did Professor Ty Bryan adopt Mastering?

    In schoolyear 2016/2017, his department switched from McGraw Hill to an OER resource called OpenStax in an effort to reduce the cost of textbooks. Once adopted, faculty further reviewed the OER textbook and found it lacking in artwork and diagrams, as well being heavily bogged down with unnecessary content.

    In early 2020, faculty compared a variety of textbooks and publishers and decided to adopt Pearson’s Human Anatomy & Physiology, 2nd Edition by Amerman along with Mastering in Fall 2020. They landed on Pearson because of the superior way it was written and its concise, well laid out material. Anatomy & Physiology I and II are traditionally taught face-to-face, but due to the pandemic, course models had to be shifted. In response, courses had to be taught fully online, which meant faculty needed their Pearson textbook earlier than anticipated so it was adopted in Spring 2020.

    How Mastering A&P implemented?

    While Bryan incorporates Mastering content as optional for extra credit, he does strongly encourage its use and explains to his students its many benefits. He narrows down the sections from each chapter he wants them to read and includes Dynamic Study Modules.

    Outside of optional Mastering content, Bryan’s assessments in A&P I include four quizzes, six lecture exams and one standardized final exam. Students must receive a minimum of 50% on the final exam to pass the course.

    The instructor experience

    One of the main benefits Bryan has noticed since switching from OER is the improvement in artwork quality. OER lacked detailed artwork that is so crucial for students in A&P courses. Another highlight for Bryan is the readability of the Pearson text. He believes his students are better understanding concepts with the Pearson text because it’s concise and easy to navigate without being too tied down with unnecessary and disjointed material.

    Bryan finds the Pearson textbook sets A&P I students up for success in A&P II better than their previous OER textbook, with Bryan saying: “I think they are getting a better idea of chemistry from the Amerman textbook than they were getting from OER. (OER) is written by multiple people at multiple times. They go in there and do their little bit and it’s not easy to read. At least with the Pearson textbook…they’ve got a shot because it’s giving them something they can read, something they can understand, and the diagrams are plainly laid out.”

    Bryan never had anyone to reach out to with OER, no support to go with the textbook if he needed any type of assistance. In contrast, with Pearson, he feels he has been supported every step of the way. There was plenty of training when initially adopting Mastering with step-by-step instructions.

    Conclusion

    When deciding to switch from OER to Pearson, Bryan and fellow faculty wanted a more effective way for students to develop a foundational knowledge of anatomy and physiology concepts that would prepare them for their clinicals. With Pearson, he finds the quality animations, diagrams, and concise wording all combine to help students be successful. As the instructor, he finds the continuous support Pearson offers to be invaluable in being able to offer his courses as seamlessly as possible.

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