The document discusses principles of effective questioning. It recommends asking questions that cover all parts of a topic, include both simple and complex questions, encourage lengthy responses, and promote critical thinking. Good questions should be purposeful, clear, brief, natural, thought-provoking, and limited in scope while being adapted to the intelligence level. The document also provides examples of bad questions to avoid, such as those that are ambiguous, leading, use double negatives, or ask about specific past events.

1. ART OF
QUESTIONING

2. Why ask Questions?
To identify reasons of doing
something
Know more about the topic
Conclusion we expect

3. Principles of questioning
◦ Distribute your questions so that it covers all the parts
◦ Ask both simple and exacting questions to get the make it interative
◦ Encourage lengthy responses
◦ Critical thinking – How, why, to what extent, under what circumstances
◦ Allow time to think

4. Good questions
◦ Purposeful
◦ Clear
◦ Brief
◦ Natural
◦ Though-provoking
◦ Limited in scope
◦ Adapted to the level of intelligence

5. Survey Monkey – Avoid the following
Bad Questions Reasons
How many times have you used Adobe Acrobat during the last
calendar year
Last year – too much time
User may not be able to recall
When typing a letter a I typically use
1.Word 2.Adobe acrobat 3.photoshop 4.Word processor
Ambiguous
The Mac operating system rarely gets infected by viruses and
therefore Department of Education should only purchase Mac
computers.
1. Yes 2. No
Leading Question
How do you feel about the instructor(s) of this course? Take ratings on some factors
like knowledge, interaction
Which of the following is not an example of a non-example of a
research method?
Double negation