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 ...

Martin Wiener, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), received funding to study learning and metacognition for the perception of time. Via this research, ...

(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 ...

This post is by Mike Amarillas, a 12th Grade Engineering teacher ar High Tech High North County. Last week I experienced my first round of student-led conferences (SLCs) at High Tech High North County ...

Cognitive offloading, the practice of shifting cognitive tasks to external aids, significantly enhances problem-solving and learning efficiency. This paper offers a comprehensive review of cognitive ...

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dr Kate Erricker, Group Head of Education Research and Global Partnerships at Nord Anglia Education, and Dr Damian Bebell, Assistant Professor at the Lynch School of Education ...

Effective learning skills are critical for navigating an increasingly complex world. Rapid advances in technology make it possible to access large amounts of information quickly. Although this ...

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 ...