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 ...

The measurement of online self-regulation processes is a very important issue and in this rejoinder to Ainley and Patrick (this issue) I am arguing that including measures of metacognitive experiences ...

This post is by Mike Amarillas, a 12th Grade Engineering teacher ar High Tech High North County. Last week I experienced my first round of student-led conferences (SLCs) at High Tech High North County ...

We make decisions all day long. Some of them are based on careful consideration, some are based on past experiences, and some just seem to come without much thought. Decisions come in all forms.

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 ...

When teachers talk about using AI in the classroom, the first question that usually comes up is: How does this actually ...

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 ...

A paradox appears in the lives of students with learning disabilities: on the one hand, they go to great lengths to avoid difficult tasks while trying to appear competent (i.e., they display many of ...

What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know. To put it in more ...

Carol Boston says “Black and Wiliam (1998b) define assessment broadly to include all activities that teachers and students undertake to get information that can be used diagnostically to alter ...