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 ...

Have you ever thought about thinking? This hot topic is known as metacognition, the awareness of understanding your thought process and understanding the way those patterns work behind them. It ...

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 ...

How Much Should We Rely on 2020 Election Polls? Source: Siphotography/Deposit Photos Metacognition is a high order thinking skill that is emerging from the shadows of academia to take its rightful ...

(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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...