Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Cognition, metacognition and academic performance: what are the differences between East Asian and the Western? -- PART I Cognition, metacognition and academic performance in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan -- 2 Relations of metacognitive and motivational strategies to test and homework performance in Chinese students -- 3 English-language learners in Chinese high schools: self-efficacy profiles -- 4 Academic achievement of Hong Kong Chinese students: motivational perspective -- 5 Development of metacognition and its relationship to academic performance and learning experience in East Asian students studying in Hong Kong -- 6 Cognition strategies, metacognition strategies and academic performance in Taiwan -- PART II Cognition, metacognition and academic performance in Japan, Singapore and South Korea -- 7 Situating metacognition in context: importance of others and affect in metacognitive interventions -- 8 Strategies for achieving deep understanding and improving learning skills: new approaches to instruction and lesson study in Japanese schools -- 9 Academic help seeking, implicit beliefs of ability and achievement of Singapore students -- 10 Cultural reading on Korean students' learning strategies -- Index