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

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 ...

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 ...

This evening, my family will sit down on the couch together to enjoy the opening episode of America’s favorite spectacle of poor metacognition. Along with millions of others, including some of you, we ...

Many instructors experience disappointment when their students’ exam scores don’t live up to expectations. How is it possible, we ask ourselves, that so many students failed to grasp the concepts we ...

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 ...

Image: Ralph Losey, Losey AI LLC using his Visual Muse GPT. Bill Gates 2023. EU photo. Photoshopped AI by Ralph Losey. While “trivial” might sound harsh, Bill Gates’s assessment is essentially ...

We make decisions on a daily basis concerning many different life issues, like what to wear, where to live, what to cook, where to dine, which car to buy or drive, whom to partner with, etc. We can do ...