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 ...

Throughout history, the value of knowledge has always been closely linked to the core challenges of the era. In primitive society, knowledge was a tool for survival; in the agricultural era, ...

The historical transformation of the value of knowledge has always been closely linked to the core social elements of each era. In primitive societies, knowledge was integrated with survival and life, ...

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 ...

Metacognition sounds really complex, but it really just means 'thinking about and managing your own thinking.' You might think it sounds difficult to do, but it's something you're probably already ...

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 ...

A recent Cambridge University Press & Assessment report reveals a global struggle among students with self-management and ...

(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 ...

What do the following have in common? Stopping yourself from buying a high-performance laptop because you want to save up enough money to take your family on a nice vacation. Snacking on baby carrots, ...