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If you’ve ever experienced frustration with a tough task, thought about why it was making you feel that way, and developed a solution for approaching the project differently, you’ve successfully used ...

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 ...

Metacognition is the awareness and understanding of your own thinking and thought processes with the goal of improving learning and performance. Put simply, metacognition is about how to organize your ...

Most of my conversations about critical thinking (CT) inevitably refer, at some point, to its definition. This is an important trend because clarity is vital. Too often, discussions of this nature ...

We all spend our days thinking, solving problems, making choices, learning new things, yet most of us rarely pause to examine how we think. Hidden beneath our everyday decisions is a quiet skill that ...

Metacognitive thinking, a methodology for mastering intellectually challenging material, is revolutionizing legal education. Metacognition empowers people to increase their mental capabilities by ...

In a virtual pharmacy, a real-world student sits at her computer, interacting with an AI-powered simulation. On her screen, a distressed virtual patient demands answers about a new medication. The ...

A study published in PLOS Mental Health explores the role of metacognition in mental health, focusing on its association with anxiety-depression and compulsivity, with an emphasis on how these ...