One of the major purposes of values education is to help students develop more complex ways of reasoning--to facilitate cognitive development. The purpose of moral education in a cognitive developmental framework becomes the stimulation of the student's capacity for moral judgment. With this goal in mind, the teacher must first be prepared to…

Illustrating the way in which poorly posed questions may adversely affect class participation and learning, this article presents examples of classroom questions that have been classified and analyzed; components of hierarchical questioning strategies; and methods for using questions to stimulate thinking and enhance classroom learning. (Author/JC)

Suggestions are offered for using the questioning technique in the teaching of poetry. Questions should appeal to students of varying abilities and enable them to respond at several levels of interest and understanding. Examples from German poems illustrate application of the technique. (SW)

Suggestions for improving listening and questioning skills in elementary school children are offered, since children do not always think to ask questions when something is not clear to them. (MJB)

Seventh grade students answered questions while reading programmed science materials. For increasingly difficult questions, achievement and time required to complete the unit increased. Post-instruction achievement was higher in groups which answered questions during the unit than those which read additional material but answered no questions.…

If you can guide your students to think while they read, they are well on their way to becoming critical readers. Specific methods of questioning in order to stimulate students to think critically were outlined. (Author/RK)

Discusses different roles the problem statement can play in inquiry and some resulting classroom implications. (SL)

Describes a simple inquiry game which involves displaying a problem situation picture, with a portion of the picture covered. Children are then challenged to discover what is happening. (SL)

Focuses on teachers' questioning strategy that seeks to promote student-centered teaching through questions designed to involve the student actively in higher types of learning such as discrimination, conceptualization and generalization. (Author/RK)

A secondary course uses an integrated approach to teach economic analysis through sports. The course takes a microeconomic look at one segment of the national economy, providing an in-depth analysis of the American sport scene through the eyes of an economist. Evaluation techniques are discussed and a reprint of the course outline is provided.…

A survey utilizing both open and closed questions and eliciting the reactions of 1,435 community college-university transfer students indicated that open-response questions can validate or invalidate responses to closed questions, reveal degrees of emotion, guide the researcher in revising the questionnaire, and suggest methods of institutional…

Teacher behavior variables in an experimental teacher training study were coded in two ways; one method of coding was based on the formal structural properties of discrete teaching acts; the other method of coding was based upon the functional properties (consequential student behaviors) of discrete teaching acts. (Author/JC)

Written questions and answers lead to original thinking and writing and to better reading class management than does the "directed reading activity" approach to reading instruction. (JM)