Week 17: Questioning Techniques

This week very much followed on from last weeks lesson on Assessment and Feedback. Questioning Techniques, our use of and the way we ask questions, can greatly influence our intended learning outcomes. Some of this weeks lesson was covered earlier too under Learning Outcomes.

Some of the recap this week covered Observation and Peer Feedback in Assessments:

Eg: Colour Card - Emotion Faces - Sliding Scale of Emotion

Through the art of thoughtful questioning teachers can extract not only factual information, but aid learners in: connecting concepts, making inferences, increasing awareness, encouraging creative and imaginative thought, aiding critical thinking processes, and generally helping learners explore deeper levels of knowing, thinking, and understanding. (Erickson 2007)

The Lesson contained some useful activities to engage us as learners, to see the value of questioning, as well as the wide range of techniques that we can employ. 

We started out trying to write examples of 9 different questioning techniques. The sheet looked like this:

This was the result of my sheet + annotations from the discussion after:

We then associated this with the Domains of learning:

• Cognitive
• Affective
• Psychomotor

Questioning Techniques in Practice

Using the iPads we viewed the following interactive poster which linked to video footage of question techniques:

Interesting, informative and a great use of IT in education!

Questioning Exercise:

We were given a question check-list and an exercise

Here is the question check-list:

And here is the Questioning Exercise. Which was some optional homework.