Focuses on correlations between messages enacted during employment interviews and participants' subsequent perceptions about the interview's success. Indicates cybernetic tension in the interviewer-interviewee relationship. Shows a relationship between the ways this tension was balanced during the interview and its perceived success. (RAE)

Ways are described for teachers to ask questions which require students to think and not just recall. The questions should involve variety, inference, support, and conclusion. (CB)

Describes how Multiple Response Techniques (MRTs) can be used before, during, and after reading to help students better comprehend content material. Argues that MRTs enhance comprehension by engaging all students, focusing on students' strengths, training students in reflectivity and self-monitoring, and allowing the teacher quick evaluation of…

Reflecting on her teaching practice led the narrator of this article to alter her traditional method of asking questions and giving directions to students. Examples of questioning and direction-giving strategies are included. (IAH)

This study investigated the influence of peer support and leading or misleading questions on reports of a neutral event by 48 children (ages 5 to 10). Younger children made significantly more errors in response to directly misleading questions than to indirectly misleading questions. Peer support did not influence children's prompted recall…

Presents a questioning strategy designed to provide teachers with tools for thinking about questions and their use in classroom science inquiry. Topics discussed include history, relationships, application, speculation, and explanation. (JRH)

This study evaluated the effectiveness of promoting relational thinking, using "elaborative interrogation" techniques, to facilitate the content acquisition of 36 elementary school students with mild disabilities. Results indicated that students coached in relational thinking who generated their own explanations outperformed students who…

Discusses effective questioning strategies that teachers can use to help ensure that students understand the questions they are asking and provide the appropriate answers. Particular focus is on the types of questions to ask, questioning methods, whom to question, suggested techniques, key words in questions, questions to be avoided, and the…

The Socratic method offers a useful framework for education reform and valuable insights into the nature of learning. In this method, learning is a shared endeavor; wisdom means awareness of one's ignorance; the focus is on questioning, not answers; and thinking is valued as the quintessential human activity. (SK)

Discusses the critical contribution of story awareness to beginning reading. Discusses cultural influences on story awareness, encouraging the use of literature in classrooms, questioning strategies, and concepts of story. (SR)

Finds that students ask more interpretive predictive questions than literal or applied predictive questions. Finds that teachers ask more literal prequestions than interpretive or applied prequestions about the same expository selection. (RS)

Discusses the Concept Question Chain (CQC), a set of questions used for discussing narrative or expository text that enables students to develop, learn, and apply a text-based concept. Presents an overview for developing and implementing CQC. Presents excerpts from the discussion of a group of seventh graders and their teacher as they used the…

This article describes the use of structured interviews to obtain information on which to base hypotheses about the functions of students' behavior disorders and the effectiveness of alternative interventions to teach new behavior. Phases and purposes of the structured interview are illustrated with several examples. (DB)

Although facts and figures prepare the volunteer and professional college fundraiser for approaching the potential donor, intuition is more useful for knowing the appropriate moment to make a request. Advice includes not underestimating donor largesse, using creativity, recognizing philanthropists, and appreciating the important roles of both…

Focuses primarily on the cooperative learning model of David and Roger Johnson. Uses a scenario involving cooperative learning strategies in use in an elementary classroom to illustrate key concepts for the classroom teacher. (RS)