Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...

What we refer to as the contemporary education literature is a body of interlocking work focused on students’ struggles to understand physical mechanics. Systematic errors (‘misconceptions’) such as ...

Large language models (LLMs) are already transforming the study of individual cognition, but their application to studying collective cognition has been underexplored. We lay out how LLMs may be able ...