Teaching and Measuring Cognitive Readiness presents theoretical and empirical findings regarding cognitive readiness and assessments of their impact on adult learning.

Preface.- Part I Theory/Context.- What Is Cognitive Readiness?.- The Evolving Definition of Cognitive Readiness for Military Operations.- Learning and Assessment: 21st Century Skills and Cognitive Readiness.- A Model for Instruction and Assessment of Cognitive Readiness.- Situational Load and Personal Attributes:Implications for Cognitive Readiness, Adaptive Readiness, and Training.- The Development and Assessment of Cognitive Readiness: Lessons Learned from K-12 Education.- Cognitive Readiness for Solving Equations.- What Problem Solvers Know: Cognitive Readiness for Adaptive Problem Solving.- A Theoretically-Based Approach to Cognitive Readiness and Situation Awareness Assessment.- Adaptive Expertise and Cognitive Readiness: A Perspective from the Expert-Performance Approach.- Part II Cognitive Readiness Applications.- Creative Thinking Abilities: Measures for Various Domains.- Using Analogies as a Basis for Teaching Cognitive Readiness.- Simulation Assessment of Cognitive Readiness.- Assessing Cognitive Readiness in a Simulation-based Training Environment.- Software Support for Teaching and Measuring Cognitive Readiness.- Cognitive Readiness for Complex Team Performance.- Impact of Individual Game-Based Training on Team Cognitive Readiness.