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Questioning
Prof. Jane
The ability to ask and answer questions is central to learning. For more
than two thousand years (since Socrates) the question has been an integral
part of teaching. Only within the last decade and a half, however, has
extensive research been directed to questions and questioning strategies.
The information which has been generated from this research indicates that
teachers largely have been asking the wrong questions. We have been
focusing primarily on questions regarding the specific information students
possessed rather than questions to promote learning.
The art of questioning for students is the foundation of all good
teaching practice. It provides for both assessment and student growth
(learning) and is the core of the scientific method and how we learn.
Purposes of Questions
Types of Questions
Focusing Question
A question that clearly specifies the issue.
Probing Question
The main job of the probing question, which follows main or follow-up
question, is to clarify.
Prompting Question
interested in, but they have not talked about voluntarily. Prompts can be
brands, products, activities, names of things, and people.
Levels of Questions
to....)
Application (How is.... an example of....? How is.... related to.....? Why
is.... significant....?)
Synthesis (What would infer from? What ideas can you add to? How
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References
http://www.slideshare.net/adelinecantillas/the-art-of-questioning-5946182
http://www.focusgrouptips.com/focus-group-questionnaire.html