2. Garbage in, garbage out, is a popular truth, often
said about computer systems: If you put the wrong
information in, you’ll get wrong information out.
The same principle applies to Communications in
general: If you ask the wrong questions, you’ll
probably get the wrong answer, or at least not quite
what you’re hoping for.
3. —
A question may be either a linguistic expression used
to request information
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Questions are normally put forward or asked using
interrogative sentences. —
They can also be formed by imperative sentences,
which normally express commands.
Example: “ Tell me what two plus two is? ”
4. A closed question usually receives a single word or very
short, factual answer.
Example: “ Are you thirsty? ” The answer is “Yes” or
“No”
2. “ Where do you live? ” The answer is generally the
name of your town or your address.
5. Closed questions have the following characteristics:
They give the facts
Easy to answer
Quick to answer
Keep control of the conversation with the questioner
6. Closed questions are useful in the following
situations:
As opening questions in a conversation
For testing understanding
For setting up a desired positive or negative frame of
mind
For achieving closure of a persuasion
7. An open question is likely to receive a long answer.
Although any question can receive a long answer, open
questions deliberately seek longer answers and are the
opposite of closed questions.
Example: 1. “ How was the party? ”
2. “ Why did he react that way? ”
8. Open questions have the following characteristics:—
They ask the respondent to think and reflect—
They will give opinions and feelings
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They had control of the conversation with the
respondent
9. Open questions are used in the following situations:—
As a follow on from closed questions, to develop a
conversation
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To find out more about a person—
To get people to realize the extent of their problems—
To get them to feel good about you by asking after their
health or otherwise demonstrating human concern
about them
10. —
Probing Questions: Specific questions for finding
more details—
Clear Questions: That is simple and unambiguous
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Double mind Questions: Whichever way you answer,
the result is the same
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Echo Questions: repeat what they say as a question—
11. Funnel questioning: seeking more detail or general
information
Rhetorical questions: questions without answers
Positive questions: Based on the principle, Yes is better
than No
Lead other person into action or otherwise
12. Questions are a powerful way of:
Learning
Relationship building
Managing and Coaching
Avoiding misunderstandings
De-fusing a heated situation
Persuading people
13. Teachers use questioning as part of their teaching for
many reasons, but very often to:—
Maintain the flow—
Engage students with learning
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Assess what has been learned—
Check that what has been learned is understood and
can be used—
Test student’s memory and comprehension
14. • Seek the views and opinions of pupils
• Provide an opportunity for pupils to share
their opinion/views and seek responses from
their peers
• Encourage creative thoughts or innovative
thinking
• Foster speculation, hypothesis and
idea/opinion forming
15. Create a sense of shared learning and avoid the feel
of a ‘lecture’.
Challenge the level of thinking and possibly mark a
change to a higher order of thinking.
Model higher order thinking using examples and
buildings on the responses of students.
Continued..
16. Questioning technique help teachers move students
from simple responses, to engage in more developed
complex thinking.
It helps students to apply what they understand, to
bridge learning from other times and different
situations, to think more actively in lessons and learn
from each other answers.
17. A skillful questioning needs to be matched by careful
listening so that teacher understand what pupil really
mean with their answer.
Therefore after questioning teacher must make sure
that she should give enough time to students to
respond. This may need to include thinking time
before they answer so she should not just interpret a
pause as a “no comment”.
So questioning is a very powerful classroom technique.
