This paper reports the procedures, results, and conclusions of a study of the effects of two instructional strategies on three aspects of preservice science teacher behavior: (1) the number of divergent and evaluative questions asked, (2) the proportion of divergent and evaluative questions asked, and (3) the total number of questions asked. The…

A study was undertaken to determine (1) if six student teachers who received instruction (in eight weekly individual or group training and feedback sessions) in the use of Bloom's taxonomy would operate within the classroom at a higher cognitive level than a control group of six who received equal time instruction using a placebo-type treatment;…

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of written prequestioning on the reading comprehension of fifth grade students. The sample consisted of 144 fifth grade students randomly selected from six elementary schools and randomly assigned to one of two groups: half of the subjects received questions to guide their reading prior to each…

The research and development efforts cited in this paper deal with four related subsets: explicit questioning, purpose setting, implicit questioning, and social conventions related to classroom questioning behavior. The contents include "Inquiry Training as Reading Training," which discusses the importance of developing inquiry skills concurrently…

Reported is an investigation of the effects on student performance above the knowledge level (Bloom's taxonomy) as influenced by the use of teacher's questioning strategies. Two parallel forms of an elementary science unit on plants and seeds were constructed. In form A, most of the teacher questions were low level in terms of cognitive thinking;…

The effect of a competency-based inservice program in questioning on teacher questioning behavior during the teaching of reading comprehension was investigated in this study. Fourteen intermediate teachers, randomly assigned to an experimental and control group, were observed before and after the program by trained observors who classified teacher…

The purpose of this study were to survey scientific research, professional literature, and doctoral dissertations on reading comprehension done from 1948 to 1972, to identify the reading factors believed to affect reading comprehension, to analyze the identified reading factors by studying the major available research and related literature, to…

A model of inquiry predicted that students would ask more questions and make more declarative statements when the teacher asked questions at a relatively low rate and used questions encouraging students to draw on their own experiences and contribute to a class discussion. The model was tested by observing each of 32 elementary teachers in three…

Part 1 of two publications reports a study which assessed the effectiveness of a college preservice instructional procedure in developing questioning skill in prospective teachers. Problems also investigated included transfer of this skill to the student teaching experience, and the relationship of selected personality factors (intelligence, sex,…

This publication was prepared by the Intermediate Science Curriculum Study (ISCS) for orienting inservice teachers for using individualized activity-centered science programs in their classrooms. The publication is designed to help teachers in training themselves to ask open-ended questions. Various questioning techniques are described along with…

This research determined the viability of three alternative teaching designs which encouraged student involvement and inquiry activity: a) teacher-guided, b) group-planned, and c) individually oriented. Each of the three designs was assigned to two sections of an educational psychology course. The remaining two sections served as a control group.…

The effect of an instructional program which was developed to introduce questioning techniques to prospective teachers was investigated. Thirty prospective Peace Corp science and mathematics teachers were observed during their training program peer-teaching sessions. After premeasure observation, the experimental group received instruction on…

This project involved the development of a manual for science teachers to use in improving their use of selected inquiry teaching behaviors. The behaviors are asking observation questions, asking interpretation questions, acknowledging and reinforcing pupil responses, extending pupil responses, and probing pupil responses. The manual, Handbook on…

This pamphlet was prepared for a two-fold purpose: (1) To produce a companion study to a previous pamphlet on "Assessing Compositions," and (2) To continue work on comprehension. It is limited to a practical study of the issues involved in composition and comprehension by devising, setting and marking regular comprehension tests for 14- and…

The effect of supplementary questions on learning from textual materials was investigated in a sample of 94 college juniors. Each subject was given a 1,500-word passage describing the concept of measurement. One treatment group was asked to identify characteristics of the concept; another was asked to identify examples from the text; a third…