Outlines the importance of questioning skills for teaching and discusses the topic in relation to the four basic ways of classifying questions: sophistication, cognitive hierarchy, direction (convergent or divergent), and personal or subjective. Includes four tables. (MD)

Art lessons can teach concepts and develop students' self-confidence when they are encouraged to discuss their work. Activities and suggested questions are offered. (DF)

This ethnographic study identifies and explains instructional strategies that result in active, silent, or controlled classroom discussions. Strategies are explained by looking at the discussion's structural sequence, the content of the teacher's questions, and the use of informal language. (Author/MT)

The study examined the effect of increased teacher-wait-time in increasing frequency of responses of two developmentally delayed 2 1/2-year-olds. Teacher wait-time of 5 seconds was found to be superior to teacher wait-time of 1 second in both frequency of response and accuracy of response. (Author/DB)

Analysis of the coaching behaviors of more and less successful high school boys' tennis coaches during practice sessions revealed that the more successful coaches asked players significantly more questions than did less successful coaches. All coaches generally demonstrated more instructional behaviors than any other type. (Author/CB)

Tests of creative production given to 75 college students used three different types of instructions. The total number of superior responses was equal for brainstorming and criteria-cued instructions and greater than standard instructions. Criteria-cued instructions worked more efficiently, producing the largest number of creative responses for…

Offers comprehensive guidelines on interviewing young children (five years of age and under) about alleged sexual abuse incidents using anatomical dolls in the interviewing process, and also highlights current legal issues on the use of these dolls in sexual abuse investigations. (BB)

Whenever there is a data gathering need and a group of people have input, the group interview may be a viable approach. The authors offer a step-by-step model for conducting group interviews. (JOW)

The writers offer a list of questions every new principal should ask about the school building. Knowing the answers will help to ensure that the building is maintained properly. (Author/MD)

Supports the assertion that pedagogical grammar must be a marriage of syntax and pragmatics through consideration of the different characteristics of "yes/no" questions and of how input from both syntax and pragmatics is needed to explain these characteristics. (Author/CB)

Discusses D. Durkin's 1979 study of reading comprehension instruction and J. Heap's critique of the study in a recent issue of "Journal of Reading Behavior." Asserts that the traditional reading lesson is a vehicle for acculturation or teaching cultural knowledge and logic. (SRT)

Inquiry in art is proposed as a model of the predominantly cognitive behaviors that are involved in producing visual art. The model behaviors are: set a direction, discover, visually analyze, classify, personalize, hypothesize, reorder, synthesize, and evaluate. These behaviors provide the basic structure for a teacher questioning strategy…

Presents a general theory of improvisation and its role in the teaching of science. Includes a definition of improvisation, a discussion of curiosity-motivated and logically motivated questions, and illustrative examples from physics. (JN)

Presents a model hierarchy of questioning skills in counseling situations, developed to facilitate training of counseling students. Identifies question types and assesses their effectiveness along a continuum. Discusses implications of the mechanisms through which effective questions can be taught in terms of present theoretical assumptions and…

Samples of institutionalized and noninstitutionalized children and adults were asked the same questions with and without accompanying drawings intended to clarify question content. Drawings had no impact as an adjunct to yes-no questions but did improve responsiveness to multiple-choice and either-or questions. (Author/ABB)