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Instructor Edition
Focus on Personal Finance: An Active Approach to Help You Develop Successful Financial Skills, 2/e

Jack Kapoor, College of DuPage
Les Dlabay, Lake Forest College
Robert J Hughes, Dallas County Community Colleges

ISBN: 0073530638
Copyright year: 2008

Focus on Value-Added Supplements



Instructor Supplements:

The Instructors Resource CD (0073282065) provides instructors with one resource for all of the Focus on Personal Finance supplementary material including :

  • Instructor's Manual
    Created by the authors, the Instructor's Manual includes a "Course Planning Guide" with instructional strategies, course projects, and supplementary resource lists. The "Chapter Teaching Materials" section of the Instructor's Manual provides a chapter overview, the chapter objectives with summaries, introductory activities, and detailed lecture outlines and sample syllabi with teaching suggestions.
    This section also includes concluding activities, ready-to-duplicate quizzes, supplementary lecture materials and activities, and answers to concept checks, end-of-chapter questions, problems and cases, as well as video cases and their solutions. A print version of the Instructor's Manual (0073282057) is also available.
  • Test Bank
    The Test Bank, also created by the authors, consists of close to 2,000 multiple-choice, true-false, and essay questions. These test items are organized by the Objectives for each chapter. This resource also includes answers, text page references, and an indication of difficulty level.
  • Computerized Test Bank
    Utilizing McGraw-Hill's EZ Test testing software to quickly create customized exams, this user-friendly program allows instructors to sort questions by format, edit existing questions or add new ones, and scramble questions for multiple versions of the same test.
  • PowerPoint Presentation
    Created by Samira Hussein and Stephen Chambers, both of Johnson County Community College, it offers more than 350 visual presentations that may be edited and manipulated to fit a particular course.

Videos
(ISBN 007328209X) new videos by BusinessWeek! Easch 5-10 minute video highlights issues relevant to todays's personal finance student, showcasing real-world applications. Topics includes taxes, consumer credit, insurance and investing.

Online Learning Center (OLC) is a website that follows the text chapter-by-chapter. OLC content is ancillary and supplementary germane to the textbook. As students read the book, they can go online to take self-grading quizzes, review material, or work through interactive exercises. OLCs can be delivered multiple ways—professors and students can access them directly through the textbook website, through PageOut, or within a course management system (i.e. WebCT, Blackboard, or eCollege.)

PageOut is McGraw-Hill's unique point-and click course Website tool, enabling you to create a full-featured, professional quality course Website without knowing HTML coding. With PageOut you can post your syllabus online, assign McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center or eBook content, add links to important off-site resources, and maintain student results in the online grade book. You can send class announcements, copy your course site to share with colleagues, and upload original files. PageOut is free for every McGraw-Hill/Irwin user and, we even have a team ready to help you create your site!

You have the option to customize this text. McGraw-Hill/Primis Online's digital database offers you the flexibility to customize your course including material from the largest online collection of textbooks, readings, and cases. Primis leads the way in customized eBooks with hundreds of titles available at prices that save your students over 20% off bookstore prices. Additional information is available at 800-228-0634.

Online Resources:

Online Learning enter at www.mhhe.com/kdh The text's website has a number of study tools and additional resources, including:

Online Quizzes, available in English and Spanish, consisting of 10 questions per chapter; Crossword puzzles, created by Patricia Halliday, Santa Monica College; Flashcards that present key term definitions on one side, and the key terms on the other side.

  • Your Personal Financial Plan Sheets in Excel:
  • Each of the Your Personal Financial Plan sheets from the book are available in Excel format on the OLC. Students can work each sheet and save, print and email them as needed!

  • Self-Study Tutor,
  • students can run through 50-75 multiple-choice and true-false questions per chapter. All of the questions are different from the end-of-chapter text problems, and offer an additional way to master concepts and help prepare for quizzes.

Enhanced Cartridges for Blackboard, WebCT, and other LMS systems allow instructors to manage their course and administer online examinations. Some of the new features include:

  • Pre-test and Post-test Question Banks: Instructors can administer comprehensive and chapter-specific pre-tests and post-tests to evaluate students’ understanding of the material.
  • Narrated PowerPoints: The slides are available in English and Spanish. They follow the chapter topics and provide steps and explanations for how to solve those topics using real-life examples. Because students learn differently, a quick click on each slide talks the users through the contents. Students can view the slides via their computer or download them to their iPod!
  • iPod Content: Harness the power of one of the most popular technology tools students use today, the Apple iPod. Our innovative approach enables students to download Narrated PowerPoints and quizzes right into their iPod and take learning materials with them wherever they go! An iPod icon has been added to the start of each chapter. This icon indicates that various study tools are available in iPod format. iPod Content is available in English and Spanish.
  • Chapter Overviews: Concise recap of what students should learn from each chapter. A great reading prep assignment!
Online Glossary: Key terms and their definitions in a ready to use format. Can be used by students as a study tool or to create a mix and match quiz.

Homework Manager: This exciting web-based program will help students learn personal finance by duplicating problems from each chapter in the textbook and by providing automatic grading and feedback to both students and instructors. Instructors have great flexibility by controlling the rules and policies for assignments, which can range from self-study sessions to homework sessions to proctored exams. Homework Manager can also be set in “algorithmic” mode to present students with new data each time an assignment is worked, so they can work on fresh problems with the same structure until they master the concept. Immediate scoring and feedback helps guide and optimize student learning. Instructors can assign problems and have them automatically graded—a great time saver! The 2nd edition Test Bank is also included in Homework Manager for online testing and grading.

Homework Manager Plus: This packaging option combines all the great features of Homework Manager, along with access to an online version of Focus on Personal Finance, linked to additional study features, so that students can easily refer back to the text for review and guidance.

McGraw-Hill/Primis Online's digital database offers you the flexibility to customize your course including material from the largest online collection of textbooks, readings, and cases. Primis leads the way in customized eBooks with hundreds of titles available at prices that save your students over 20% off bookstore prices. Additional information is available at 800-228-0634.


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