Both humans and LLMs show modest metacognitive sensitivity : When explicitly prompted for confidence ratings, high confidence ...

David Timony, Ph.D., doesn’t particularly like writing things down, but there’s something about putting pen to paper that helps him learn better. “As I’m writing, I’m reviewing what’s going onto the ...

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 ...

(This is the last post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Nancy Frey is a professor of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Frey also teaches ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...