Guided Cognition for Learning: Unsupervised Learning and the Design of Effective Homework details a new instructional design approach called Guided Cognition where homework tasks are designed to guide learners to engage in specific, observable cognitive events that are hypothesized to elicit underlying theoretical cognitive processes that result in learning. Outlining the results of twenty-six experiments completed over the course of eight years, the book tells a significant story about th...

Sandra Whitten Plant has always looked around the next bend or over the next hill, occasionally getting snagged on an inconvenient fence or doused in a cold mountain stream. In the adventures of her decades-long writing career, she finds there is always a story to be told, whether affirming, informative or entertaining. She also knows that getting a good story out of a misadventure is sometimes the only comfort, lesson or hope. That curiosity-particularly about life's possibilities and wha...