A CURRICULUM GUIDE ON MEDIEVAL STUDIES IS PRESENTED, INCLUDING TEACHER MATERIALS AND STUDENT PROBLEM SETS. THE TEACHER MATERIALS DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF MANORIAL LIFE--THE PREDOMINANT FORM OF AGRICULTURAL LIFE IN NORTHERN FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND GERMANY DURING THE PERIOD FROM APPROXIMATELY 800 TO 1300 A.D.…

PART ONE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS A DESCRIPTION OF A PRESCHOOL CLASS FIELD TRIP TO AN APPLE ORCHARD. "VERBAL BOMBARDMENT" IS THE METHOD USED BY THE TEACHER ON THIS TRIP. THE TEACHER POSES QUESTIONS TO HER STUDENTS AND LETS THEM ANSWER. PART TWO IS AN ILLUSTRATION OF STRUCTURED GROUP TEACHING. NINE CONSECUTIVE LESSONS STATING THE PURPOSE,…

The extent to which free play versus sequenced questioning conditions facilitates preschoolers' associative fluency was investigated in this study. Twenty-four children (12 boys and 12 girls, with a mean age of 50.7 months) were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: free play, sequenced questioning, and control. In the sequenced…

Examined were the number and type of questions asked by the teachers of six high school social studies classes, three of whom knew which children had been identified as perceptually handicapped. Observers noted whether questions were of a cognitive-memory, convergent, divergent, or evaluative nature. Results suggested that teachers ask children…

This report describes the nature and function of humanistic interviewing in the exchange of information. This interviewing process recognized the human side of the transfer of information involving insight, growth, and further understanding. The report examines the purposes and types of interviews, questionnaire construction, the interviewing…

The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of wait-time following a teacher's questions on the cognitive complexity of students' responses. The same sequence of three lessons--Exploration, Invention, and Discovery--was presented to 75 fifth-grade students randomly assigned to 18 groups. The Discovery phase of the instructional…

The purpose of the paper is to examine some attitudes high school students have of mathematics. This is a partial replication of the Project for the International Evaluation of Educational Achievement in Mathematics (IEA). The principal variables under study were mathematics achievement as measured by the Stanford Achievement Test; student views…

The measurement of a pupil's comprehension development from literal comprehension to evaluation focused on two questions: (1) How do we measure the various types of comprehension? and (2) How should we measure the various types of comprehension? Literal comprehension is presently measured by the recall or memory-type question. However, one should…

Studies showing that even though certain factual questions are directly related to information in passages they are also easier to answer without reference to the passage are the basis for this study which attempted to define qualities of relationship which might be responsible for the ease of answerability. Three Tests of Acquisition of…

One Teaching Laboratory (TL) task, a component concerned with several behaviors related to classroom questioning, was developed and tested. Subjects were 86 teacher candidates enrolled in four sections of an introductory teaching course. Two experienced instructors each taught two sections, one section utilizing the TL component and the other not.…

The development of thinking is accepted as the most comprehensive aim of American education. A prominent means of stimulating pupils' thinking in the classroom is the effective use of questions. To design a good question, the teacher should begin by analyzing the type of thinking to be fostered and settle on the type of task to initiate such…

This document lists and describes materials developed by the National Center for the Development of Training Materials in Teacher Education and designed to be used in the acquisition of teaching skills. Nine products from the center are listed. The following characteristics are cited for each entry: primary developers, product description,…

An experiment was performed to compare the relative effectiveness of two microteaching procedures. In the low-cost treatment, student teachers received training in higher cognitive questioning skills by means of written modeling procedures (Subjects read transcripts of videotape model lessons) and audiotape feedback after each microteaching…

This paper discusses questioning patterns that can be used by teachers to facilitate cognitive development in reading instruction. The questioning patterns suggested are intended to include the kinds of questions used on worksheets, tests, and in class projects. The opinions of various authors who stress the importance of teacher questioning…

The purposes of this study were to test for both forward and backward effects of inserted questions in prose material, and to determine the conditions under which each in most effective. The conditions examined were the relationship between the inserted questions and the subsequent questions on which learning facilitation was revealed, and the…