Corrections- Vantage Learning Platform

From Research, to Policy, to Practice

FAVORITE SAGE VANTAGE FEATURES

• Pedagogical Scaffolding
  Builds on core concepts, moving students from basic understanding to mastery.
  
  
• Confidence Builder
  Offers frequent Knowledge Checks, applied-learning multimedia tools (including assignable video with assessment), and chapter tests with focused feedback to ensure students know key concepts.
  
  
• eReading Experience
  Makes it easy for students to learn by presenting content in easy-to-digest chunks accompanied by frequent Knowledge Checks. The eReader also features notetaking, highlighting, definition look-up, and other helpful reading tools.
  
  
• Assignments and Measurement Made Simple
  Feeds auto-graded assignments to your gradebook, with real-time insight into student and class performance. The highly visual reports show if your students are struggling and where they need the most help.
  
  
• LMS Integration
  Saves you time by giving you access to all course materials from one location. SAGE Vantage can integrate with your LMS providing Single Sign-On (SSO) and gradebook integration.
  
  
• Simple Course Setup and Management
  Enables you to set up your course in just 3 steps—so fast you can complete it in minutes! Additionally, instructor control over assignments, content selection, due dates, and grading supports the way you choose to teach.
  
  
• Quality Content
  Written by expert authors and teachers you trust, content is not sacrificed for technical features.
  
  
• Student Dashboard
  Offers a highly visual student dashboard for easy access to grades, so students know exactly where they stand in your course and where they might improve.
  
  
• Greater Value and Choice
  Affordable access to easy-to-use, quality learning tools students will appreciate.
  
  
• Greater Flexibility
  Easy to access across mobile, desktop, and tablet devices, SAGE Vantage enables students to engage with the material you choose, learn by applying knowledge, and soar with confidence by performing better in your course.

• Accompanying SAGE Premium Video brings concepts to life.
  • Career Videos feature criminal justice professionals discussing their day-to-day work and current issues related to technology, diversity, and cutting-edge developments in the field.
  • Feature Videos capture insightful interviews with former inmates who discuss their experiences in prison. 
• Test Your Knowledge questions allow students assess what they already know about corrections before reading chapters, enhancing their studying and learning.
• Learning objectives identify what students should be able to do at the completion of chapters.
• Chapter-opening vignettes provide a ground-level view of corrections from the perspective of correctional practitioners, inmates, and others to show how research, policy, and practice play out in the real world.
• Policy and Research boxes illustrate key points related to past, current, and future policy issues and discuss how research has informed modern practices to improve future policies and procedures. 
• In Focus boxes detail areas of special interest related to the chapter's content with an extensive photo and illustration program.
• Ethical Issue sections prepare students for common ethical dilemmas relating to corrections and encourage them to think critically about the need for ethical behavior.
• Perspective From a Practitioner boxes give students a real-world perspective on what it's like to work in a wide array of careers related to corrections.
• End-of-chapter summaries, key terms, discussion questions, and useful Internet sites allow students to review chapter content to master the material.