Case studies have typically been weakened by the conflict between two promises that are usually made to subjects being interviewed: (1) that the focus of the evaluation is the program, not the interviewee; and (2) that the interview is an opportunity for the subject to defend his or her practice to those who seek to judge it. These promises commit…

QUESTION-STUDY AS A METHOD FOR INTERPRETING AND MEASURING PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR WAS STUDIED. DATA WERE OBTAINED FROM A PREVIOUS STUDY (ED 003 005) AND ANALYZED. ANALYSES WERE PERFORMED TO DETERMINE WHETHER QUESTIONS WERE MORE USEFUL FOR ASSESSING PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOR THAN ANALYSIS OF SOLUTIONS. TECHNIQUES, FORMULAE, AND RESULTS PERTINENT TO…

TO INVESTIGATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF METHODS OF ELICITING CHILDREN'S RESPONSES TO HUMOR IN LITERATURE AND TO DETERMINE HOW THESE RESPONSES ARE AFFECTED BY SEX, SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL, INTELLIGENCE, AND READING ABILITY, 365 FIFTH GRADERS WERE ASKED TO READ EXCERPTS CONTAINING ELEMENTS OF FIVE TYPES OF HUMOR. UNSTRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRES REQUIRING…

AN INSTRUCTIONAL BULLETIN FOR WORKSHOP USE TO ASSIST TEACHERS IN DEVELOPING THOUGHT-PROVOKING QUESTIONS IS PRESENTED. DERIVED FROM BLOOM'S "TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES" AND "CLASSROOM QUESTIONS--WHAT KIND," THE PUBLICATION ILLUSTRATES THE POSSIBLE USE OF A TAXONOMY OF QUESTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM. FOUR SAMPLE LESSONS ILLUSTRATE EXAMPLES OF…

This book provides discussion and advice concerning the process of interviewing for publication. Chapters analyze getting interviews, doing research, relating to the interviewee, questioning techniques, persisting in a line of questioning, and dealing with off-the-record comments. Notetaking, tape recording, difficult subjects, interviews by…

A study was conducted to determine to what extent student teaching behaviors can be changed as a result of participation in the Far West Laboratory Minicourse I, "Effective Questioning Techniques" (a program relying on microteaching, filmed instructional and model lessons, and on teacher planning and self-evaluation of his own videotaped lessons).…

This study was designed to investigate (a) the feasibility of modifying an existing question classification scheme for use in measuring the inquiry level of teachers' questions and (b) the relationship between the inquiry level of teacher questioning and student achievement. Data for the study were collected from three specific classroom…

This study is one of a series of studies conducted or planned by the authors investigating the information processing strategies employed by students who are placed in a quasi-instructional setting of learning from text with questions interspersed. The subjects were 65 undergraduate students from two introductory educational psychology courses.…

This review describes some of the main research findings and issues that center around teachers' use of questions in classroom instruction. The paper is divided into sections dealing with: (1) the classification of questions by type, (2) teachers' questioning practices, (3) effects of teachers' questions on students' behavior, (4) students'…

AN EXPERIMENTAL SITUATION WAS DEVELOPED IN WHICH THE SUBJECT HAD THE TASK OF DETERMINING WHICH OF A SET OF POSSIBLE EVENTS HAD OCCURRED ON EACH TRIAL. THIS WAS DONE BY ASKING THE EXPERIMENTER QUESTIONS WHICH COULD BE ANSWERED "YES" OR "NO" UNTIL THE EVENT WAS NAMED. FOUR EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN WHICH STRATEGIES WERE…

Interpretive questioning techniques can be used with folktales to enhance children's insight into human problems. (MKM)