Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a world-renowned AI scientist and consultant. Specifically, machine metacognition. Here’s the deal. AI ...

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 ...

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 ...

Generative AI systems clearly contribute to knowledge production. They synthesize vast amounts of data, reorganize information and generate structured responses that appear reasoned and coherent. But ...

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.

Nord Anglia Education ("Nord Anglia"), the leading international schools organisation, has published the final report from its two-year Metacognition Research Project, one of the most comprehensive ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ricky J. Sethi, Fitchburg State University; Worcester Polytechnic Institute (THE ...

Students, and people in general, can tend to overestimate their own abilities. But new research shows that students who overcome this tendency score better on final exams. The boost is strongest for ...

Is metacognition unique to humans? We cannot ask animals for a verbal judgment about their behavior, but ingenious animal-friendly tests can nonetheless probe whether other creatures form thoughts ...