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Question-Asking as an Instructional Technique
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Question-Asking as an Instructional Technique
- 5.5. Designing Questions Toward Thinking and Understanding Rather Than Answers. By Margaret G. McKeown and Isabel L. Beck
Q-A is a processing component for: comprehension, problem solving and other cognitive abilities
- Goal is to increase student comprehension with text interaction
Studies show mixed results: that asking questions can improve students' learning of text material
- Why?
- What do Questions in the classrooms look like?
- Typically they follow the IRE pattern: teacher INITIATES a question, the student RESPONDS, usually briefly and the teacher EVALUATES - and then goes on to ask another - maybe related, maybe not question
- This type of question is restricted: students rely on recall and will frequently get the answer right
- WHAT IS A GOOD QUESTION?
- Not know the answer immediately
- Need to think about question
- Leave room for students to build their own meaning
- Result is a cognitive turmoil that allows students to struggle with ideas and thinking
- ENGAGING STUDENTS WITH OPEN QUESTIONS
- What 's the author's message?
- QUESTIONING THE AUTHOR (QtA) an instructional approach - open queries
- Answers become less literal and more thoughtful, meaningful
- Students response to Open Questions
- Teacher must follow-up and re-voice student response to stimulate ideas, & build meaning for further discussion
- For questions to be effective, they must be organized and sequential
- Story Map - best guide to promote comprehension: unified, mental representation of a story based on logical organization of central story events, ideas and their interrelationships.
- Knowing where you are going
- Target key ideas & the connections between ideas
- For questions to be effective, they must be organized and sequential
- Prompt student thinking
- Direct toward goal of building meaning
- Teacher must follow-up and re-voice student response to stimulate ideas, & build meaning for further discussion
- What's this about?
- What's going on? What are they up to?
- How does this connect with what we know?
- Leave room for students to build their own meaning
- help students build understanding of what they don't know
- helps reveal what students know
- Teacher poses question that can be answered, by recall and does not promote understanding or a thoughtful comprehension process
- WHAT IS A GOOD QUESTION?
- This type of question is restricted: students rely on recall and will frequently get the answer right
- Typically they follow the IRE pattern: teacher INITIATES a question, the student RESPONDS, usually briefly and the teacher EVALUATES - and then goes on to ask another - maybe related, maybe not question
- What do Questions in the classrooms look like?
- Why?
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