There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness 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 ...

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 ...

Metacognition is the awareness and understanding of your own thought processes with the goal of improving learning and performance. Put simply, it’s a way to manage your thinking and is the last ...

The Journal of Experimental Education, Vol. 83, No. 3 (2015), pp. 386-404 (19 pages) This study examined the effect of strategy instruction and incentives on performance, confidence, and calibration ...

Active learning puts students at the center of the learning process by encouraging them to engage, reflect, and apply what they’re learning in meaningful ways. Rather than passively receiving ...

Self-assessments encourage students to reflect on their skills, knowledge, learning goals, and progress in a course. These practices can range from quick, low-stakes check-ins on lecture content to in ...