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 ...

Metacognition* is the ability to: Think about your own thinking. Be consciously aware of yourself as a problem solver. Monitor, plan and control your mental processing. Accurately judge your level of ...

There are no silver bullets in education but if there ever was a secret weapon educators can deploy to improve student learning, it’s metacognition. Metacognition is a meta-level awareness of ...

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 ...

Understanding student motivation is a complex challenge. Factors such as mindset, personal values, anticipated outcomes, environment, and external expectations all impact motivation—which, in turn, ...

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 ...

Metacognition is a powerful executive function skill, and it is the second topic I am exploring in this series on ADHD and executive function skills. Executive function skills help us accomplish tasks ...

Most people know what they think, but not why they think it. When you can’t answer why you think a certain way or why you choose to arrive at certain conclusions, your capacity for independent thought ...

(This is the second post in a four-part series on the topic of metacognition in the classroom. You can see Part One here.) Thinking about thinking. That’s the simplest definition of Metacognition. But ...

Metacognitive processes refer to higher-order cognitive functions that monitor and regulate thoughts. In youth anxiety disorders, dysfunctional metacognitive processes have been implicated in the ...

Metacognition refers to the capacity to reflect on and regulate one’s own thinking processes. In schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders, disturbances in metacognitive functions underlie core ...