Questioning

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Questioning

• Effective Techniques

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Question Types

• Cognitive domain (Blooms taxonomy)
• knowledge
• comprehension
• application
• analysis
• synthesis
• evaluation
• Affective domain
• valuing
• responding
• receiving
• Psychomotor domain

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Additional Question Types

• Content-directed questions (intended to obtain
  information about subject matter)
• Student-directed questions (intended to obtain
  personal responses from students)
• Rhetorical Questions (self-expression to obtain
  an effect, or a means of giving directions)
• Ambiguous questions (intended to obtain
  information, but the nature of the question is
  not clear)
• See handout Rhodes Typology of Questions
• TIPERS - Tasks Inspired by Physics Education
  Research

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Questioning Techniques 1

• Prepare your students for extensive questioning
• Use both pre-planned and emerging questions
• Use a wide variety of question types
• Avoid the use of rhetorical questions
• State questions with precision

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Questioning Techniques 2

• Pose whole-group questions unless seeking
  clarification
• Use appropriate wait time
• Select both volunteers and non-volunteers to
  answer questions
• Respond to answers provided by students

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Questioning Techniques 3

• Maintain a positive class atmosphere
• Throw back student questions
• Interrelate previous comments
• Restate discussion goal periodically
• Take your time
• Be equitable in the way you select students to
  respond.