Discusses ways teachers can enrich and expand literature discussions by asking questions to center discussion on aesthetic responses, rhetorical responses, metacognitive responses, and shared inquiry. (SR)

Whether anomalous information causes an increase in questions generated by college students as they solve quantitative problems or comprehend stories was studied in 5 experiments involving 160 undergraduates. Results support an anomaly hypothesis that predicts more questions when there are anomalous transformations of original problems or stories.…

Presents 12 rules for librarians who have to deal with the media, particularly reporters. Highlights include reframing of questions, benefits of a positive approach, the need for repetition, sample questions to practice on, and a sidebar that presents a reporter's viewpoint. (LRW)

Issues involved in adapting the focus group process for low-income adults and children of Hispanic and Caucasian ethnicity include kinds of incentives, selection of location, participant recruitment and eligibility, question development, and number of groups to conduct. Children's attention span, cultural and linguistic differences, and child care…

A study involving 50 law enforcement officers found the majority had received training in evaluating sexually abused children and exhibited behavior that was sensitive yet mindful of the legal nature of their assessments. Half of the officers, however, did not follow a standard procedure when using anatomically correct dolls. (CR)

Analysis of the discourse styles of 10 British teachers of English showed that teacher-led recitation was the dominant practice, though it imposed linguistic and cognitive constraints on students. This practice follows the transmission model rather than the constructivist model of learning. (SK)

Examines whether children were able to maintain question answering skills the next school year with character-focused reading passages after receiving QAR (Question Answer Relationship) instruction. Finds good maintenance with two text-explicit questions but variable maintenance with text-implicit questions. Notes that students demonstrated the…

Argues that questions are essential to thought, that thinking is driven by questions, and that answers often signal a full stop in thought. Outlines the art of Socratic questioning, and describes how to construct a list of "prior questions" (questions presupposed by another question). Offers a sample Socratic dialog in a high school…

Nursing preceptors can develop students' critical thinking by questioning their knowledge base, decision making, and actions in clinical experiences. Preceptors need the ability to ask stimulating and challenging questions at the right level of support. (Contains 35 references.) (SK)

Describes research that was conducted to discover principles for the design of educational tasks that provoke collaborative argumentation, concentrating on the relationship between question asking and argumentation. Discusses results from experiments with three different collaborative learning tasks involving university students and examines the…

Describes a question writing contest in which students were asked to write and submit multiple choice questions of the assertion-reason type (type E) in physiology. (Author/CCM)

Describes some outcomes of a project in which teachers from six schools developed formative assessment in their science classrooms. Discusses three main areas of work: (1) questioning in classroom dialogue; (2) quality of such questions; and (3) feedback on homework. Indicates that teachers saw that the changes were transferring more of the…

Three experiments with pigeons studied the relation between time and rate measures of behavior under conditions of changing preference. Experiment 1 studied a concurrent chain schedule with random-interval initial links and fixed-interval terminal links; Experiment 2 studied a multiple chained random-interval fixed-interval schedule; and…

In today's society, how many people just want to know the answer? How many students are satisfied with accepting their first Internet hit without comparing information and validating sources? How many adults do the same? With today's technology, instant gratification and completing a task as quickly as possible seem to be the norm. This article…

Ninety 4- to 13-year-old alleged victims of sexual abuse were interviewed by police officers using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) investigative interview protocol, following which they were shown a human figure drawing and asked a series of questions. The drawing and associated questions elicited an average of…