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 ...

Creating procedures around daily classroom activities reduces the mental burden for students, leaving more brain space for ...

Ultimately, the question every professor should ask is this: Is this a task students need to be able to perform on their own?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For a high school physics teacher, assigning less homework meant comprehensively revamping assessments and how each class ...

The study finds that high smartphone use in school affects cognitive control in youths, indicating a need for policies to ...