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Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. (she/her, @RetrieveLearn) is a cognitive scientist and Associate Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where she teaches psychological science to exceptional undergraduate musicians. Drawing on her combined 20 years of experience as a researcher, public school teacher, and college professor, Dr. Agarwal shares practical evidence-based resources for thousands of educators around the world in her book, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, and online at RetrievalPractice.org.

Her award-winning research on how students learn has been published in prominent academic journals; featured in The New York Times and NPR; and funded by the National Science Foundation. She received her Ph.D. from Wash
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Do your students use concept maps? They might be missing this key link

By Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. (@RetrieveLearn)

   

If you and your students use concept mapping as a class activity or study strategy, there might be something missing. Based on research by educator and scientist Dr. Kripa Sundar, the key to an effective concept map isn’t the “node” or the key concept inside a bubble. It’s the “link,” or the relationship between concepts, that counts. Learn how to

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Published on November 07, 2025 10:32

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One of my favorite activities when I teach is an “ask me anything” session (AMA). Students ask me questions about content, of course, but a structured Read more of this blog post »
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“Part of why this occurs is what's referred to as the illusion of fluency. Typically, when current learning feels fluent or effortless, students think that learning and retention will be effortless and easy in the future.3 In this example, it is precisely the repeated re-reading of material (an easy learning activity) that gives students an illusion of fluency, resulting in much higher JOLs for final test performance. In contrast, when learning activities are challenging, students' predictions of their own learning are more realistic and accurate.”
Pooja K. Agarwal, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

“Scientists are currently exploring whether Brain Dumps are more effective if written by hand versus typed; include structure (organize as you go along) vs. no structure; or include prompts (“describe how clouds are made”) versus no prompts. So far, there are no hard-hitting winners when it comes to optimal structures compared to a simple “write down what you can remember” approach.7 We encourage you to do what's practical for you and your classroom and focus on retrieval, not format.”
Pooja K. Agarwal, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

“Feedback-driven metacognition is another Power Tool that significantly boosts learning. It isn't new and you probably give students feedback all the time; the difference is that how you give feedback has a large impact on encoding, storage, and retrieval.”
Pooja K. Agarwal, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

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