Today's society, schools, and youth can no longer afford an educational system which continues to report that the questions it uses demand little more than recall of past knowledge by its students. (Author)

Teachers are urged to evaluate their use of questions in the classroom. It is felt that increased use of good questioning techniques will improve students' learning. (RS)

Responsiveness to interview questions was measured in 52 institutionalized retarded children, 57 noninstitutionalized retarded children, and 58 institutionalized adults. Responsiveness was a stable individual behavior, positively correlated with IQ and comparable across the three samples. Responsiveness varied with question type. (Author/CL)

Nineteen student teachers were observed using the Questioning Strategies Observation System and an instrument to measure proficiency in using the problem-solving approach. Student teachers using the approach asked more high-level questions, more low-level questions, and fewer procedural questions, thus emphasizing more cognitively challenging…

Observation of academic instruction in regular classes revealed that even though teachers were aware of the presence of gifted and/or highly intelligent students in their classes, they did not use questioning to provide cognitive stimulation for them. It was concluded that improving questioning techniques can enhance student learning and…

Describes a study testing the premise that an opening question in a letter eliminates excess words and increases the impact of the letter. (HTH)

Argues that basing comprehension questions on story grammar will help students develop story schema. (FL)

Rates of acquiescence were alarmingly high in institutions as well as community samples; lower IQ respondents tended to acquiesce more than higher IQ respondents; and, acquiescence had major effects on the content of responses. (Author)

Lists 16 questions for eliciting student writing. (JT)

Although Socratic questioning is sometimes said to stimulate curiosity, analysis of selected dialogues from the "Meno" reveals that curiosity cannot be seen to follow from the questioning methods. Other factors, including the felt need to know, may account for curiosity but constitute preconditions rather than results of questioning.…

Several teachers contribute games and teaching strategies for improving students' critical thinking skills through the use of higher-order questions. A short quiz for teachers on questioning is included. (SJL)

Describes simple prereading activities and questioning techniques for improving comprehension in English. Many of the ideas could be adapted by other subject area teachers. (Author/SJL)