Describes the InQuest Procedure, which actively involves the reader or listener with narrative text through a combination of student questioning and spontaneous drama techniques. (FL)

Concludes that the textbook series examined contained questions that required some higher order thinking, but no opportunities for expansion, no integrated sets of questions focusing on particular concepts or skills, and no sets of open questions focusing on particular concepts or skills. Reveals that textbooks for poor readers included more…

A major goal of the social studies teacher should be to nurture independent reading-thinking habits, including inquisitiveness, critical thinking, and evaluation of ideas presented in information. How this can be done through skillful question planning is discussed. (RM)

Suggestions for improving the design and use of student evaluation forms include tailoring the forms to the class needs and format, wording statements carefully, training students to evaluate performance, allowing ample time for completion, handling the evaluation procedure without involvement of the professor, and eliminating student anonymity.…

Reseach on use of questioning in classroom teaching reveals that recitation is a poor method, but teachers use it anyway because it is effective in teaching curriculum that is largely textbook based. Teacher educators may be advised to help teachers learn to use recitation well. (MD)

Presents guidelines that enable classroom teachers to help mildly handicapped students develop two types of text lookback strategies and offers a series of explicit teaching activities that emphasize direct, student-centered instruction. (HOD)

Reviews recent interviewing literature to determine the patterns or emphases that consistently contribute to an effective process of personnel selection. Examines three variables integral to all personnel selection--the qualities or characteristics desired in personnel, the means to determine the presence of these qualities, and who should be…

Examines materials in the ERIC system offering teaching ideas and activities designed to promote critical and creative thinking and reading. Discusses the role of teacher questioning techniques and writing to structure thoughts. (HTH)

The first experiment made use of adjunct questions to manipulate the probability that kindergarten and second-grade children would make inferences during comprehension. The second investigated the relative influence of memory for details, memory for explicit information, and age on memory for inferences. (Author/RH)

Argues that the Socratic method is inappropriate for children because it teaches them to question adult authority before they have the necessary experience and is therefore conducive to cynicism. A traditional liberal arts curriculum, combining transmission of culture with open inquiry, is preferable to attempts to teach critical thinking. (TE)

Examines how teachers use questions to socialize and control students. (FL)

Two types of questions were inserted in reading material either before or after certain text segments to see how they affected learning. (MM)

Discusses optimal teacher actions in developing inquiry skills through Flanders Category System, (created to describe and classify classroom interactions), and Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, (created to identify levels of intellectual operations). Identifies different purposes served by different level questions. (Author/DB)

Surveys of several Washington communities reflect citizens' priorities with respect to educational programs. Survey methods are outlined that give district citizens the opportunity to rate the importance of educational programs. (Author/MLF)

The significance of a college education in developing decisionmaking via question forming is emphasized in this brief historical review. Social and political influences are cited. (LBH)