Books in the Educational Psychology Series series

This volume describes the recent research that has examined specific theoretical aspects of metacognition in domains of direct relevance to education. It shows that by fostering metacognitive processes during instruction, more durable and transferable learning can be achieved.

A study of bilingual young people who have been selected by their families to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world. It shows that these family interpreters perform at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age.

Presents a picture of the field of intellectual styles, through describing, analyzing, and integrating the major theoretical and research works on the topic. This book describes nature, origins, historical development, theories, research, and applications of this field, and addresses three major controversial issues.

Richard E. Snow's final book, unfinished at his death in 1997, has been organized and completed here by a panel of his colleagues. It identifies questions that research should address to combine aptitude theory with theory of social and cognitive processes.

This volume describes the recent research that has examined specific theoretical aspects of metacognition in domains of direct relevance to education. It shows that by fostering metacognitive processes during instruction, more durable and transferable learning can be achieved.