This paper focuses on the pedagogical strategies that can be constructed from the technique of using questions in composition writing. Questions are classified into real, pedagogical, and rhetorical; the rhetorical intentions of real questions are examined; and the "possibility of negation" and three-stage rhetorical patterns…

A discussion of how to teach rhetoric emphasizes the student's need to discover the content of a piece of writing. Thus, what is needed in teaching is a plan which draws attention to the experience first and then to the task of communicating effectively. Such a plan for teaching rhetorical invention is outlined and discussed. The outline consists…

The following levels of reading are defined: (1) decoding, (2) literal comprehension, (3) interpretation, and (4) creative thought. The technique of raising open end questions is discussed, and sample questions are provided for each of the above levels. Eleven specific critical reading skills related to level 3 are listed. (CM)

This report describes the results of an experiment on teacher structuring, soliciting, and reacting behavior. Four teachers each taught eight groups of sixth-grade students using eight different variations of the classroom recitation strategy. The eight variations differed in the amount and kind of structuring, soliciting, and reacting behavior…

A study was conducted in an effort to demonstrate the potential usefulness and versatility of immediate feedback for direct teacher training. Subjects were two fourth grade teachers who wore electronic earphone speakers in their social studies classes. One, with 12 years experience, taught geography to each class separately in daily 30-minute…

In these lectures, three aspects of the educational experience are discussed: exploration, conversation, and creation. Exploration is the free reaching outward, compelled by curiosity, wonder, and excitement. This is not necessarily associated with formal education, but must be achieved through the discipline of order and precision; such growth…

This book describes the Behavioral Outcomes Approach that focuses on the development of the thinking processes and is characterized by (a) the establishment of responsive conditions in which children become autonomous learners, (b) the use of structured questions to promote the pupil's use of a variety of thinking processes, and (c) the initial…

Nine questions provide a framework for examining and analyzing how power is used in human relationships and institutions and four questions are presented that show how to begin to apply knowledge about power learning through the previous questioning. To gain an understanding of power, students can analyze various historical situations,…

This paper deals with the use of microteaching techniques to train student teachers in stimulating learners' questions. Research was carried out at the Gordon Teachers Training College, Haifa, Israel. A rating scale, including teaching patterns stimulating learners' questions, was prepared from the existing literature and the analysis of pilot…

This is one of a series of eight short monographs intended to aid practicing educators in planning and conducting accountability programs in schools. This booklet discusses how to plan and conduct interviews appropriate to the objectives of a particular research or evaluation effort. Short sections focus in turn on advantages of interviews,…

Using a computer as a data source for a complex, open-ended problem, it was found that individuals approached problem solving differently than do pairs, and that the ability of the subjects determined the type of data requested, and how long it was processed. (JD)

Fifty-six normal 5-year-old Israeli children were tested to determine whether questioning procedures found to be successful with American children for enhancing memory processes would be successful with children from another culture who spoke a different language. (Author/JMB)

Using materials from the history of insect control technologies as the basis, the author demonstrates the three fundamental contributions historical inquiry can make to environmental education. Recommendations for the use of historical investigations in environmental education at the university level are presented. (BT)

Conceptual or verbatim questions were placed either before or after an 800 word passage read by college students. Results show that conceptual prequestions produced higher recall than conceptual postquestions and verbatim prequestions yielded less recall than verbatim postquestions. (Author/DEP)

This paper describes problems and possible solutions involved in creating a context in which teaching skills can be studied experimentally. (MM)