Reseach on use of questioning in classroom teaching reveals that recitation is a poor method, but teachers use it anyway because it is effective in teaching curriculum that is largely textbook based. Teacher educators may be advised to help teachers learn to use recitation well. (MD)

Presents guidelines that enable classroom teachers to help mildly handicapped students develop two types of text lookback strategies and offers a series of explicit teaching activities that emphasize direct, student-centered instruction. (HOD)

Reviews recent interviewing literature to determine the patterns or emphases that consistently contribute to an effective process of personnel selection. Examines three variables integral to all personnel selection--the qualities or characteristics desired in personnel, the means to determine the presence of these qualities, and who should be…

Examines materials in the ERIC system offering teaching ideas and activities designed to promote critical and creative thinking and reading. Discusses the role of teacher questioning techniques and writing to structure thoughts. (HTH)

The first experiment made use of adjunct questions to manipulate the probability that kindergarten and second-grade children would make inferences during comprehension. The second investigated the relative influence of memory for details, memory for explicit information, and age on memory for inferences. (Author/RH)

Argues that the Socratic method is inappropriate for children because it teaches them to question adult authority before they have the necessary experience and is therefore conducive to cynicism. A traditional liberal arts curriculum, combining transmission of culture with open inquiry, is preferable to attempts to teach critical thinking. (TE)

Examines how teachers use questions to socialize and control students. (FL)

Two types of questions were inserted in reading material either before or after certain text segments to see how they affected learning. (MM)

Discusses optimal teacher actions in developing inquiry skills through Flanders Category System, (created to describe and classify classroom interactions), and Blooms Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, (created to identify levels of intellectual operations). Identifies different purposes served by different level questions. (Author/DB)

Surveys of several Washington communities reflect citizens' priorities with respect to educational programs. Survey methods are outlined that give district citizens the opportunity to rate the importance of educational programs. (Author/MLF)

The significance of a college education in developing decisionmaking via question forming is emphasized in this brief historical review. Social and political influences are cited. (LBH)

Selected results from the research completed under the Effective Teacher Education Program is presented, and ways are explored in which this research can be applied to teaching. (MM)

The need for mastery of question forms by the English language learner is discussed. A system of techniques for use with a group of intermediate young adult learners familiar with question patterns but lacking oral practice is suggested. (RM)

This intervention study evaluated the effects of using two types of explicit instruction, curriculum maps and guided questions, compared with simple reviews or repetition to teach core curriculum content to high school students with learning disabilities in a group instruction format. A repeated measures research design was used with six groups of…

Students who visit writing labs are often inexperienced writers who need help and even prescriptive teaching. Although some compositionists are leery of including prescriptive help among possible teaching strategies, the writing lab tutor's position as advisor rather than judge helps students accept the suggestions as the options they are. As…