The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

Have you ever thought why professors should only appraise students’ understanding of concepts taught in class through continuous assessment tests (CATs) and exams? Usually, such questions and related ...

Collin Lucken is a Hastings Postdoctoral Scholar in AI and Humanity at Bowdoin, a role he started in September 2025. He came here from Cincinnati, where he recently completed a Master’s in Robotics ...

I recently wrote a research paper on cognitive barriers to critical thinking (CT), discussing flaws in thinking associated with intuitive judgment, emotion, bias, and epistemological misunderstanding, ...

Despite the fact that Joe Biden has won the presidential election, bitterness and divisiveness between the almost equally divided one hundred and forty million Trump and Biden supporters persists. In ...

Editor’s note: The intersections of art and education are often overlooked. The Seattle Times will periodically publish pieces by young people in Washington about their perspectives on these subjects.

Critical thinking is a vital, yet often neglected, skill. In higher education, Chris Griffiths, author of “The Creative Thinking Handbook,” noted in a TLNT blog article that critical thinking is “the ...

That’s the whisper in lecture halls, the temptation in browser tabs, and the callow counsel passed among today’s undergraduates as though it were an indispensable life hack, or even a godsend. More ...

Socrates wasn’t the greatest fan of the written word. Famous for leaving no texts to posterity, the great philosopher is said to have believed that a reliance on writing destroys the memory and ...

Cultivating critical thinking skills should be a top priority for any business that wants to succeed in today’s complex and rapidly changing world. According to the World Economic Forum, “analytical ...

We were stunned by the survey responses. Given higher education's current emphasis on critical thinking, why did students enrolled in introductory science courses feel so unprepared to analyze data, ...