Metacognition* is the ability to: Think about your own thinking. Be consciously aware of yourself as a problem solver. Monitor, plan and control your mental processing. Accurately judge your level of ...

Metacognition is a high order thinking skill that is emerging from the shadows of academia to take its rightful place in classrooms around the world. As online classrooms extend into homes, this is an ...

You need to judge what you have learned to decide how hard to work on learning that material in the future. How accurate are ...

Have you read that K-12 education must focus on “critical thinking,” “positive mindset” and “metacognitive skills“? If you ...

(This is the final post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here; Part Two here and Part Three here.) The new “question-of-the-week” is: What is ...

Twin studies have proven invaluable for teasing out the effects of both genetics and the environment on human biology. Researchers studied pairs of twins to look at how the interplay of genetics and ...

Future developments in the field might focus on identifying specific brain activity markers of subsequent correct changes of mind. If reliable and valid markers are found, they could be harnessed to ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) In Part Two, Dan Rothstein, Mark Estrada, Diane Friedlaender ...