INVESTIGATION OF CLASS TEACHERS’ OPINIONS ABOUT QUESTION ASKING SKILL, QUESTIONING STRATEGIES AND QUESTION TYPES

Knowledge and question asking.

The ability and the motivation for question asking are, or should be, some of the most important aims of education. Unfortunately, students neither ask many questions, nor good ones. The present paper is about the capacity of secondary school pupils for asking questions and how this activity depends on prior knowledge. To examine this, we use texts containing different levels of information abo...

Asking the Right Question

For instance, enthusiasts of object-oriented programming were initially keen to promote the value of hierarchical models. Only later did experimental evidence reveal that deep hierarchies are more error prone than shallow ones. In contrast, medical practice has changed dramatically during the last decade as a result of adopting an evidence-based paradigm. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, studie...

A question worth asking?

Question Asking During Tutoring

Whereas it is well documented that student question asking is infrequent in classroom environments, there is little research on questioning processes during tutoring. The present study investigated the questions asked in tutoring sessions on research methods (college students) and algebra (7th graders). Student questions were approximately 240 times as frequent in tutoring settings as classroom...

Asking the right question.

Rendell's most recent predecessor, Tom Ridge , illustrates the historical pattern. Who shall forget the constant allusions to "one-term Tom" that made the rounds of the state capitol during the end of his first year in 1995 and into his second year? Ridge had actually started his governorship with a successful special legislative session dealing with crime legislation and a tax cutting state bu...