I: Basic Research -- 1 Why Be Optimistic About Cognitive Strategy Instruction? -- 2 The Triple Alliance for Learning: Cognition, Metacognition, and Motivation -- 3 Children's Utilization of Study Time: Differential and Sufficient Aspects -- 4 Informal Instruction and Development of Cognitive Skills: A Review and Critique of Research -- 5 Domain-Specific Knowledge, Metacognition, and the Promise of Instructional Reform -- 6 Why Strategy Instruction Is So Difficult and What We Need to Do About It -- II: Educational Applications -- 7 The Selective Attention Strategy and Prose Learning -- 8 Children's Communication Skills: Implications for the Development of Writing Strategies -- 9 Cognitive Monitoring in Mathematics -- 10 Schema-Based Strategies and Implications for Instructional Design in Strategy Training -- 11 Strategy and Expertise in Solving Word Problems -- 12 Computer-Assisted Strategic Instruction -- Author Index.