My absolute favorite part of MasteringA&P was the Interactive Physiology Tutorial. These tutorials deconstructed each subject down to its foundation and then, layer by layer, taught the physiology of the systems in a way that made it easy to understand. Watching the tutorials made the human body come alive and helped me understand the topic in a way that just reading a book or looking at ...

Understanding the Context

In spring 2013, Barron added MasteringChemistry prelecture homework assignments: short, untimed assignments due before lecture designed to help increase student awareness about new topics and to identify student misconceptions and areas of misunderstanding. Barron tells students it is okay to be confused after doing the homework because the concepts will become clear during class. Sexual health cannot be defined, understood or made operational without a broad consideration of sexuality, which underlies important behaviours and outcomes related to sexual health. The working definition of sexuality is: “…a central aspect of being human throughout life encompasses sex, gender identities and roles, sexual orientation, eroticism, pleasure, intimacy and reproduction ...

Key Insights

Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) gives young people accurate, age-appropriate information about sexuality and their sexual and reproductive health, which is critical for their health and survival. While CSE programmes will be different everywhere, the United Nations’ technical guidance – which was developed together by UNESCO, UNFPA, UNICEF, UN Women, UNAIDS and WHO – recommends ... A new study from the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ Special Programme in Human Reproduction (HRP), and The Pleasure Project finds that approximately 1 in 20 people who discontinue contraception while still needing it – whether for pregnancy prevention or safer sex – do so because they perceive negative impacts on their sex lives.