Suggests ways to improve college admissions interviews. Discusses the purpose, format, technique, and content, of the interview as well as selling the college, concluding the interview, and writing the final interview report. Emphasizes the benefits of good interviewing skills to admissions officers. (WAS)

Provides a number of teaching ideas designed to show what cohesion has to do with children, books, and teachers. (FL)

Teachers often ask questions to stimulate students' thinking, open up dialog, draw out responses, and keep a discussion flowing. However, questioning techniques can encourage student passivity and dependency. Alternatives to questioning are described. (CJ)

Recent findings suggest individuals seek evidence to confirm initial hypotheses about other people, and that seeking confirmatory evidence makes it likely that a hypothesis will be confirmed. Examined the generalizability of these findings to the employment interview. Consistent use of confirmatory hypothesis testing strategies was not found.…

Examines the development of standardized reading comprehension tests in the critical states from the early 1900s through current testing trends. (AEA)

An incidental teaching procedure (using natural opportunities for instruction) was more effective than a question-labeling procedure (using open questions) in increasing the rate and variety of two-word requests produced by a severely language delayed preschooler during free play. Rate of spontaneous production was lower than expected. (CL)

Discusses distinctions between story grammar and schemata, arguing that knowledge of these two concepts has its best educational applications when placed within a developmental perspective. Provides a theoretical framework for story comprehension questioning strategies for teachers. (HTH)

Examines requests and responses of first-grade children in peer reading groups and concludes that children differ in the variety and complexity of their requests. (FL)

Concepts and conceptual analysis are viewed in examining basic differences between types of questions. Six techniques used in the inquiry of concepts are: (1) isolating questions; (2) model cases; (3) contrary cases; (4) counterexamples; (5) related cases; and (6) invented cases. (JN)

Two types of pictures were used to investigate whether or not the amount of information contained in the pictures would help children's comprehension of wh-questions. Pictures do not seem to facilitate understanding for low socioeconomic (SES) children more than for middle SES children but do seem to be helpful at certain developmental levels. (LC)

Argues that using story frames to guide students' responses to comprehension questions seems to help them provide better answers and to develop their independent comprehension skills. (FL)

The second in a series of articles concerning the pros and cons of whether it is better to use questioning as part of the teaching device or not to question during discussion focuses on the most effective nonquestioning techniques. Alternatives to questioning are given. (JN)

Argues that show-and-tell is an important school learning activity that gives students an opportunity to practice and improve their oral language abilities. Offers a technique for the informal assessment of show-and-tell activities. (FL)

Research studies on questioning techniques are reviewed, and a list of suggestions regarding the role of the teacher in the art of questioning concludes the article. Suggestions include: avoid using questions to introduce lessons; keep content-oriented questions specific; do not expect students to guess what you mean. (KC)

Offers an annotated bibliography of 22 RIE entries from the ERIC database on the use of questions in the classroom and in other learning environments. (JMF)