This book focuses on the different instructional strategies that should be used when teaching procedures, processes, concepts, principles, and memory instruction. The core idea being that the best way to teach people about concepts is different than teaching people about a procedure. And that teaching people to memorize a list is very different from teaching principle-using behavior, and that the methods used to teach each type of learning are different.

To help you understand what the book is like, here is some quotes about using instructional strategy to teach a process:

A process is a pattern of events. Procedural processes describe the influences and effects of a procedure as it is performed, from a third-person point of view. When procedure and process instruction are combined, a student learns to perform the procedure while at the same time learning how the procedure affects the environment in which the procedure is performed.(P.222)

...Process knowledge is comprised of several possible event paths which events might follow depending on how conditions vary. The most superficial degree of process knowledge consists of memorizing the steps in a process.(P.225)

Most explanations in science textbooks are delivered in the form of long paragraphs in which several process threads are intertwined, and only a few event paths out of the large number possible are presented, and a limited amount of information is given to help a student determine the other paths that might occur.

Missing information may include missing events, incomplete description of the mechanisms for transition between event-states, confusing presentation of the mechanism, lacking specification of the conditions under which state-transitions take place, or lack of linkage between condition causes and event effects. (P.226)

For process-using behavior to occur, a student must not only predict an outcome, but must also be able to supply a rationale for it. The student must be able to explain through a chain of reasoning why and how the outcome occurred.
We have been careful to describe a process as a pattern of events and not as a sequence of events; now it is possible to see why. As natural elements are acted upon by all kinds of forces, energies, and signals, there are many forces acting at once, and so there are many possible outcomes depending on the forces acting, their magnitude, and their balance. Any set of circumstances can thus result in a large number of outcomes, depending on the final resolution of the forces. That means that a process as we experience it is not a fixed, rigid, unchanging sequence of events, but a possiblity with numerous outcomes - numerous possible event sequences. Process-using means being able to predict from a given set of elements and acting forces one or more possible outcomes. Process-using behavior deals in the cause-effect linkages between events and explains them in terms of force, energy, or signal transfer between related elements. (p.226)


The nature of process instruction requires much stage setting. The difference in the requirements for environment description for novices and experts is the key to an important principle for all of process instruction. Process instruction, more than any other type of instruction, is prone to great compression. For process instruction, the instructional message can sometimes be compressed into a few words if the audience for the instruction is experienced and already has a great deal of knowledge in the content. For novices, the explanations must be detailed and explicit - sometimes painfully so. (P.235)

This book is an authoritative compendium of instructional design practices applied to computer-based instruction, including web-based training (WBT). Drawing heavily from M.D. Merrill's Component Display Theory and ID2 project, the book has strong chapters on instructional strategies for each of the major types of learning. It also has good treatments of basic design practices for tutorial and simulation CBT design.

If you're a gay man who doesn't know London well, buy this book. Gay London offers a selective and manageable list of what to do and see in London-both what's nominally gay and what some gay men look for (e.g., art museums). I finished the book thinking that Gay London was what the four authors would recommend to their out-of-town friends.

Presented more as a travelogue, the authors identify and describe what they like about London. The writing is clever and the book is well organized. The book is also wallet size, which meant I could carry it around easily and pull it out to read whenever I had a free moment. Most convenient.

Two notes:
1. If you don't know London well, you will need another guide, because Gay London is highly selective--thus leaves out a lot of information.
2. This book is for gay men. Thankfully, the authors make that clear on the outside back cover.

This guide is very complete and accurate. Anything gay that you could possibly want to know about or do in London is included! Don't go to London without it!

I found this book to be very helpful and informational. As a new Hosta gardener, I highly recommend this book. This is a great book to start with, providing you with A-Z Hosta listings and colorful pictures.

A real bargain for the price. This book was wonderfully layed out with gorgeous colored photographs throughout. The information given within was quite easy to follow. A great reference book for the hosta gardener.

I refer to this book more than any other of the tractor books I collect. It covers most modern tractor manufacturers with striking and beautiful photography and quick backgrounds of each company. Even obscure European tractor companies are covered in depth.

Andrew Morland and Peter Henshaw should update this book since some of the information is now outdated (especially since the Case-New Holland merger occurred last year). As with other Enthusiast Color Series books, precious pages are sometimes wasted with repeat photographs of tractors we have seen elsewhere in the book. This occurs less frequently in this book than others of the Series.

Anyone who loves tractors will love this book!

This is the ultimate guide to modern tractors in 96 pages between two covers! It's got a full-color gallery of John Deere, Ford, and New Holland farm tractors plowing, planting, spraying, and HEY! I Can't tell you everything. But anyway, if you love tractors, what the heck are you doing just sitting here? GO BUY THIS BOOK

Some of Hill's earliest novels don't really compare to some of his later ones, but this is one of a couple of absolutely cracking exceptions.

It's got a wonderfully complex plot, some brilliant characters, a great setting, some surprising twists, and it is written wonderfully. Plus, Franny Roote is one of the best villains Hill has ever created. This one, indeed, is essential reading for those who intend to read the later books in the series, because it is Roote's first appearance, and he goes on to appear in quite a large role in all three of Hill most recent books ("Arms and the Women", "Dialogues of the Dead", and "Death's Jest Book"). It's also pivotal in that here Pascoe is first re-united with his former friend, and future wife, Ellie.

A body is found buried in the grounds of Holm Coultram College, and the police arrive, settling themselves in on campus. They meet a wonderful array of interesting and well-drawn interesting characters (students and lecturers alike), but then a new body turns up, and then another...

This is a wonderful crime novel, realistic and strangely chilling, that explores the underbelly of that bastion of the education system, the College, with its strong-willed students, and with it's lectureers all too ready to give in to temptation...

I would reccomend this novel to anyone, especially fans of the police procedural which not only entertains but challenges the intellect. The character, story, writing and setting are all marvellous. Fantastic. Certainly one of Hill's best.

A good overall reference work for spatial analysts and epidemiologists alike.

In planning a family vacation to California, we found the book by Julie Douglas to be very informative and loads of fun for our children. We all learned a lot and had such fun doing it. Hope to see more books like this. Very creative activities!

It is very intresing how it works with fractions. I am taking algebra II and trig, and it's great!

This is a great book not only for young people who want to learn about castles and the medieval lifestyle but also adults who are first learning about the period.

It's one thing to read text but it's even better to see pictures which bring it to life.

In this picture book, we get information about the people who live in a castle, its defenses, a medieval feast, a hunting party, preparation of a siege and then each step showing how the siege and battles take place.

Invigorating to read. Also, check out THE WORLD OF THE MEDIEVAL KNIGHT by Christopher Graven (another illustrated book).

The story of the husband and wife who switched jobs for the day has been a favorite of mine ever since I was a small child. I've read many versions of it. This version is humorous with bold, colorful illustrations. Unlike most other versions, the setting is in the USA. It's a delightful book to be enjoyed by many.