Chapter 2 defines Guided Cognition design. We explain the Guided Cognition experimental paradigm and tell how we identified learning behaviors, which we are calling “cognitive events,” to use in homework questions and tasks. We show how some of the cognitive events can enrich homework questions (or other forms of unsupervised individual learning) so that the homework has some of the qualities of supervised group learning. We give examples of cognitive events that were identified in supervised group learning, and we show examples of how they can be incorporated into unsupervised individual learning (including homework). We define content-focused cognitive events and also define process-focused cognitive events, and we relate them to research literature.
