Teachers can use these research-based cognitive and behavioral cues to help students feel capable, focused, and ready to work, even when tasks are challenging.

When students create a visual resource to scaffold problem-solving, they can approach independent work with more confidence ...

Modern classrooms are filled with the language of cognitive science. We talk about student engagement, working memory, attention, mindset, and cognitive load as if we can observe these things directly ...

Evidence from the past 20 years indicates that the use of computers in classrooms has led to declines in students' academic ...

Many education researchers spend a lot of time studying how students learn, but if their findings don’t make their way into the classroom, they are only so useful. For example, researchers have known ...

Letting an AI assistant handle the hard parts of thinking feels efficient in the moment, but a growing body of cognitive ...

To that, Bergmann has developed a new teaching framework that combines flipped learning and mastery learning models with the ...

A new cognitive science major within Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences was approved earlier this year. Now, the major, coordinated by director Prof. Shaun Nichols, cognitive science, and program ...

A recent Wall Street Journal opinion essay captured this nation’s rotten national mood. Its title reads, “Seeing Red and Feeling Blue.” This July 4, this country’s 247th anniversary, the nation’s mood ...

Group of tired school kids feeling bored while sitting in the classroom during the lecture. [W]hat is often overlooked is that some of the most transformative benefits of physical activity happen in ...