QUESTIONING

DEFINITION

Questioning is the educational activity, it

is the first stimuli to the mental life of the child
and it remains throughout the life
K.P.Neeraja
 OBJECTIVES

• To measure the students achievement

• To arouse interest
• To ensure proper organization and interpretation
of materials
• To facilitate interpretation and evaluation of
information
• To form and develop attitudes and appreciations
 FRAMING THE QUESTIONS

1. Lower – order cognitive question

to test knowledge
2. Higher – order cognitive question
to create knowledge
 PURPOSES
1. To explore the previous knowledge of the
learner
2. To motivate the lesson
3. To stimulate thinking
4. To know whether the children follow the
teacher or not
5. To clear the doubts
6. To fix the facts in the mind
7. To test the achievement
 PURPOSES

8. To lead on the creative work

9. To stimulate the class
10. To integrate knowledge
11. To emphasize important points
12. To test the assignment of home task
 CHARACTERISTICS
• Based on sound ideas or purposes
• Written according to the range of the student
knowledge
• Stimulate learning
• Contain only one idea
• Well worded
• Definite rather than vague
• Neither too easy or too difficult
• Asked in logical sequence
CLASSIFICATION

• Judgement questions
• Information questions
CLASSIFICATION

• Memory
• Thought
 TECHNIQUE
• Address the question to the class in general and call
out student name
• Distribute questions as evenly as possible to all
students
• Allow sufficient time to answer
• Ask questions in a natural, interested,
conversational tone
• Question as a rule should not be repeated
• Organize questions around sequences
FUNCTIONS

• Socially
• Psychologically
• Educationally
 REFERENCE

Loreta E Heidgerken. “Teaching and Learning”