Metacognition, or the ability to think about one's own thinking, is the surprising trait that sets geniuses apart. It ...

What happens when massive numbers of people think they know more about a subject or are better at something than they ...

Imagine the following: You teach anatomy and your learners are rapidly approaching their first exam. One of your learners waits until the last few days before the exam to start studying. Once she ...

A new study detects a systematic link between children's "theory of mind" as assessed in kindergarten and their metacognitive knowledge in elementary school. Metacognition refers to the awareness of ...

Students have conceptions about the relationship between instructional interventions and learning or, in other words, students have 'instructional metacognitive knowledge'. In this study, the ...

Vol. 26, No. 1/2, Special Issue: Metacognition in teaching and learning (MARCH 1998), pp. 65-79 (15 pages) While in college students learn a great deal of new knowledge, and over time successful ...

(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 ...

(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 ...