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A Checklist for Effective Questioning
- Do I make certain that all students develop a deep understanding of key declarative (i.e., facts, concepts, generalizations, and principles) and procedural (i.e., skills, processes, and procedures) knowledge by emphasizing higher-order questioning?
- Do I encourage discussion in my classroom by using open-ended questions?
- Do I decide on the goals or purposes of my questions?
- Do I choose important–rather than trivial–material to emphasize students’ in-depth exploration of essential/key questions?
- Do I avoid “yes” and “no” questions?
- Do I use “probe” questions to encourage students to elaborate and support assertions and claims?
- Do I ensure that students clearly understand my questions–and avoid a “guessing game?”
- Do I avoid questions that “contain the answer”?
- Do I anticipate students’ responses to my questions, yet allow for divergent thinking and original responses?
- Do I use purposeful strategies for helping students deal with incorrect responses?
- Do I make effective use of Wait Time I and II?
- Do I vary my question structures to include, where appropriate, the following:
Questioning for Quality Thinking
Recalling: Who, what, when, where, how _______?
Comparing: How is similar to/different from_______?
Identifying Attributes and Components: What are the characteristics/parts of _______?
Classifying: How might we organize into categories_______?
Ordering: Arrange into sequence according to _______?
Identifying Relationships and Patterns: Develop an outline/diagram/web of _______?
Representing: In what other ways might we show/illustrate _______?
Identifying Main Ideas: What is wrong with _______? - What conclusions might be drawn from_______?
Identifying Errors: What is wrong with _______?
Inferring: What might we infer from _______? - What conclusions might be drawn from _______?
Predicting: What might happen if _______?
Elaborating: What ideas/details can you add to _______? - Give an example of _______.
Summarizing: Can you summarize _______?
Establishing Criteria: What criteria would you use to judge/evaluate _______?
Verifying: What evidence supports _______? - How might we prove/confirm ______?