Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chapter 1. Counseling and disabilities: needed counseling concerns relative to educational psychology and special education / Michael F. Shaughnessy [et al.] -- Chapter 2. Instructing and testing for expertise: a cognitive load perspective / Slava Kalyuga -- Chapter 3. What do tests of reading comprehension ability such as as the VSAT really measure?: a componential analysis / Brenda Hannon and Meredyth Daneman -- Chapter 4. Factors external and internal to the adult reader that affect the inferential process / Tracy Linderholm [et al.] -- Chapter 5. Development of reading-specific representational flexibility: a cross-sectional comparison of second graders, fourth graders and college students / Kelly B. Cartwright [et al.] -- Chapter 6. Interaction of automatic processes and cognitive resources in reading: a compensatory framework / Jeffrey J. Walczyk [et al.] -- Chapter 7. Generaliation and transfer of problem solving strategies / Zhe Chen -- Chapter 8. Development of problem solving strategies in gifted and average-ability children: bringing research from cognitive development to educational practice / Hillary Hettinger Steiner and Martha Carr -- Chapter 9. Current issues in the assessment and training of metacognitition related to mathematical problem solving / Annemie Desoete and Herbert Roeyers -- Chapter 10. How to make good texts for learning: reviewing text revision research / Eduardo Vidal-Abarca [et al.] -- Chapter 11. 2 x 2 achievement goal framework: an overview of empirical research / Arlen C. Moller and Andrew J. Elliot -- Chapter 12. Academic achievement and motivation in difficult classes. A multilevel analysis approach / Joachim Tiedemann and Elfriede Billmann-Mahecha.