Developing Questioning Skills - Ecap

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1Section 5. Improving Specific Teaching TechniquesDeveloping Questioning SkillsKarron G. Lewis, for Teaching EffectivenessThe University of Texas at AustinThe ability to ask and answer questions is central tolearning. For more than two thousand years (since Socrates)the question has been an integral part of teaching. Onlywithin the last decade and a half, however, has extensiveresearch been directed to questions and Questioning strate-gies. The information which has been generated from thisresearch indicates that teachers largely have been asking thewrong questions. We have been focusing primarily onquestions regarding the specific information students pos-sessed rather than questions to promote use of Questioning Skills is essential to systematicinvestigation in any subject area.

Section 5. Improving Specific Teaching Techniques 1 Developing Questioning Skills Karron G. Lewis, Ph.D. Center for Teaching Effectiveness The University of Texas at Austin

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