Prof. István Zsigmond

István Zsigmond is academic at Sapientia – Hungarian University of Transylvania (Romania). He is graduated in psychology and special psychopedagogy. His research activity is oriented toward developing and testing new educational methods, aimed at improving learning-centered communication in classroom settings. He has 18 years of experience in teaching psychology and related disciplines like educational psychology and developmental psychology, as well as in elaborating and accrediting training courses for in-service teachers. He has worked as a monitoring and facilitating expert in several school-development programs in Hungary and Romania. He also has five years’ experience in monitoring national-level EU projects, and is a scientific coordinator of several European Partnership projects. He is the author of 4 books, 6 book chapters and 27 scientific articles.

He has developed several programs for improving metacognitive thinking in educational settings, and also elaborated an evaluation method for measuring metacognition in thinking.