Metacognition, or the ability to think about one's own thinking, is the surprising trait that sets geniuses apart. It ...

Students have conceptions about the relationship between instructional interventions and learning or, in other words, students have 'instructional metacognitive knowledge'. In this study, the ...

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 ...

What happens when massive numbers of people think they know more about a subject or are better at something than they ...

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 ...

Many students, across ages and countries, are weak in self-management or metacognition, which is the ability to plan, monitor and evaluate one’s own learning. This helps explain why hours of study ...