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Six Types of Questions to Ask:
Guide to thinking critically
Nature – students recall, remember, or recognize
information presented earlier
Key words – name, list, recall, define, tell, match,
who, what, how many
Nature– students, at a simple level, translate answers
into different forms, interrelated discrete facts, generalized concepts, and so on
Key words – describe, compare, contrast, explain,
summarize, give an example
Nature– students apply learned material to new, but
concrete, situation (case study or specific experience) after deciphering part of unfamiliar
problem
Key words – solve, decide, predict, apply, use,
extend, expand
Nature– students break a question/problem into
component parts, find the relationships among them, and then identify how to solve each part
Key words – diagram, distinguish, analyze, identify,
what reasons, why
Nature – students combine two or more elements into a
new (for them) combination or set of relationships
Key words – plan, create, devise, reorganize, combine,
pull-together
Nature– students judge how closely something matches a
definite standard found in the material (e.g., logical consistency), external to
material (e.g., grammatical correctness), or specified by the
student (in general or for that activity)
Key words – criticize, rate, judge, evaluate, support,
grade, rank
** Based on Bloom’s classification of questions, 1956
Tools for Teaching, Barbara Gross Davis
Other aspects of questioning:
Exploratory = basic facts
Challenge = examine assumptions, conclusions, interpretations
Relational = compare themes, ideas, or issues
Diagnostic = motive or cause
Action = conclusion or action
Intuition – What do your senses & feelings tell you?
Historical – What has happened in different historical times,
places, and events?
Experiential – What have you, those like you, and those
different from you experienced?
*Source: Bloom, Benjamin. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay Co., 1956. |
