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 ...

Mr. Willingham is a psychologist at the University of Virginia and the author, most recently, of “Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy.” Picture your preschooler’s ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story misidentified Joseph Durlak’s university. He is a professor emeritus of psychology at Loyola University Chicago. Includes updates and/or revisions. From ...

The following resources can help you get better grades, study smarter, improve your note-taking and test taking skills and diminish your academic anxiety. Schedule your study time on a calendar and ...

Non-cognitive skills and character competencies have as much of an effect on success as academic skill, researchers from the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution conclude in a ...

The pandemic has brought the topic of developing university students’ digital skills to the fore. With the propulsion of learning and teaching into an online and blended world has come an awareness of ...

Through case analyses, mini lectures, guest speakers, class pitches, and business plan presentations, students will acquire skills in conceptualizing, developing and managing a successful new venture ...

Research has shown that students who use digital technology excessively are less motivated to engage with their studies, and are more anxious about tests. This effect was made worse by the increased ...

Microeconomics can be math-intensive. Fundamental microeconomic assumptions about scarcity, human choice, rationality, ordinal preferences, or exchange do not require advanced mathematical skills.