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Pooja K. Agarwal, PhD

Cognitive Scientist; Former K-12 Teacher; Former Director of K-12 Student Assessment, Illinois State Department of Education; Founder, RetrievalPractice.org; Assistant Professor, Berklee College of Music; Former Project Lead, HarvardX (Massive Open Online Courses), Harvard University; Author, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning (2019); Co-Author, "Benefits from Retrieval Practice Are Greater for Students with Lower Working Memory Capacity" (2017, Memory), "Both Multiple-Choice and Short-Answer Quizzes Enhance Later Exam Performance in Middle and High School Classes" (2014, Journal of Experimental Psychology), and "Advances in Cognitive Psychology Relevant to Education" (2012, Educational Psychology Review)

Events

Learning How to Learn

The Westin Copley Place, Boston, MA  November 22-24, 2019

The Science of Engaged Learning

Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning

Merging Minds & Technology

Held at the Westin Copley Place Hotel in Boston, MA  November 10-12, 2017