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Skrifvars, Jenny; Antfolk, Jan; van Veldhuizen, Tanja; Sui, Veronica; Korkman, Julia – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Previous research has indicated that asylum interviewers--contrary to recommendations--use more closed than open questions to elicit information. In the current study, we investigated how information is elicited in asylum interviews by analyzing question-answer pairs in 105 official Finnish asylum interview transcripts. We developed a new coding…
Descriptors: Interviews, Refugees, Recall (Psychology), Personal Narratives
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Hiltunen, Matti; Kärkkäinen, Sirpa; Keinonen, Tuula – Education Sciences, 2021
Prior research has shown that both teacher-led and recitation questions dominate in classrooms; teachers ask closed-ended questions more than open-ended questions. Even though classroom questioning has been studied in many previous studies there has been very limited research addressing the questioning of student teachers during inquiry-based…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Inquiry, Questioning Techniques, Biology
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Johanna Kiili; Tiina Lehto-Lundén; Johanna Moilanen; Sirpa Kannasoja; Kaisa Malinen – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2025
This article analyses intergenerational research encounters when collaborating with children. It contemplates the possibilities of applying participatory research methods in situations where the research agenda and main research methods have been decided before contacting the research subjects, as these must be explained in the ethical statement…
Descriptors: Intergenerational Programs, Children, Cooperation, Research Problems
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Kääntä, Leila; Kasper, Gabriele – Classroom Discourse, 2018
Using multimodal conversation analysis, this article examines how students strive to resolve non-understandings through requests for clarification during teacher-fronted physics lectures taught in English in Finland. The findings provide new insights on the sequential environments in which students launch the requests (i.e. between or during…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Language of Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Pöntinen, Susanna; Kärkkäinen, Sirpa; Pihlainen, Kaisa; Räty-Záborszky, Sinikka – Education Sciences, 2019
Formulating questions is an integral part of pupils' learning process and scientific inquiry. Investigating pupil-generated questions in a collaborative science learning setting, combining self-regulation theory and phases of inquiry, can extend the previous research into pupils' questions.This study considered questions from pupils (n = 24, aged…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Questioning Techniques, Learning Processes, Early Adolescents
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Hähkiöniemi, Markus – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2017
Previous studies have produced several typologies of teacher questions in mathematics. Probing questions that ask students to explain are often included in the types of questions. However, only rare studies have created subtypes for probing questions or investigated how questioning differs depending on whether technology is used or not. The aims…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Computer Software
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Alemanji, Aminkeng A.; Dervin, Fred – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2016
This study offers a critique of the questions used in anti-racism discourse and education. It discusses the dangers of asking whether a person or group is racist and the possible consequences such questions could have on people's discourses and attitudes. Reactions or responses to the questions can vary from anger, defence of self against other,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Racial Bias, Social Justice, Workshops
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Sauerland, Uli; Grohmann, Kleanthes K.; Guasti, Maria Teresa; Andelkovic, Darinka; Argus, Reili; Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Arosio, Fabrizio; Avram, Larisa; Costa, João; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; de López, Kristine; Gatt, Daniela; Grech, Helen; Haman, Ewa; van Hout, Angeliek; Hrzica, Gordana; Kainhofer, Judith; Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Laura; Kunnari, Sari; Kovacevic, Melita; Kuvac Kraljevic, Jelena; Lipowska, Katarzyna; Mejias, Sandrine; Popovic, Maša; Ruzaite, Jurate; Savic, Maja; Sevcenco, Anca; Varlokosta, Spyridoula; Varnava, Marina; Yatsushiro, Kazuko – First Language, 2016
The comprehension of constituent questions is an important topic for language acquisition research and for applications in the diagnosis of language impairment. This article presents the results of a study investigating the comprehension of different types of questions by 5-year-old, typically developing children across 19 European countries, 18…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questioning Techniques, Preschool Children, Language Acquisition
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Valtanen, Juri – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2014
Question-asking is essential for being, knowing and learning. However, classroom research has confirmed that students do not ask questions spontaneously and teachers ask the most questions, mainly low-level ones. The purpose of this qualitative case-study is to investigate question-asking during problem-based learning (PBL) tutorials, a subject…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Questioning Techniques, Tutorial Programs, Video Technology
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Moate, Josephine; Sullivan, Paul – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2015
Students of education encounter a range of pedagogies yet how future teachers' appropriate moral principles are little understood. We conducted an investigation into this process with 10 international students of education attending an intensive course on "dialogic pedagogy" in a university in Finland. The data comprising student…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Teaching Methods, Correlation, Foreign Students
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Smeds, Pia; Jeronen, Eila; Kurppa, Sirpa; Vieraankivi, Marja-Liisa – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2011
Outdoor education in rural and agricultural surroundings offers many possibilities for learning and studying different school subjects as well as teaching. This study aims to explore the development of an educational rural camp school, Eco Learn, and to investigate pupils' expectations and experiences and teachers' experiences of carrying out the…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Outdoor Education, Learning Processes, Content Analysis
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Ahtee, Maija; Juuti, Kalle; Lavonen, Jari; Suomela, Liisa – European Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
Teacher questioning has a central role in guiding pupils to learn to make scientific observations and inferences. We asked 110 primary student teachers to write down what kind of questions they would ask their pupils about a demonstration. Almost half of the student teachers posed questions that were either inappropriate or presupposed that the…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Inferences, Observation, Demonstrations (Educational)
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Jakobsson, Anders; Makitalo, Asa; Saljo, Roger – Science Education, 2009
Much of the research on students' understanding of the greenhouse effect and global warming reports poor results. Students are claimed to hold misconceptions and naive beliefs, and the impact of teaching on their conceptions is also low. In the present study, these results are called into question, and it is argued that they may to a large extent…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Climate, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts
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Loukusa, Soile; Ryder, Nuala; Leinonen, Eeva – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2008
This research explores, within the framework of Relevance Theory, how children's ability to answer questions and explain their answers develops between the ages of 3 and 9 years. Two hundred and ten normally developing Finnish-speaking children participated in this study. The children were asked questions requiring processing of inferential…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Familiarity, Preschool Children, Questioning Techniques
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Sarmavuori, Katri – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 1986
Material comprising teachers' questions and pupils' responses was collected during ordinary lessons in order to gain an understanding of the linguistic interaction during lessons in the mother tongue. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Discourse Analysis, Finnish, Foreign Countries
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