Framing Questions

1. What is meant by the term framing questions?

• Providing students with the necessary time to effectively think and respond to the question

• Providing students with the necessary information so that they can effectively think and respond to the question

Which of the four tactics below can be employed to increase accountability in questioning?

• Brainstorming

• Venn Diagrams

• Place Mat

• Numbered Heads

Identify four of the six levels of the reviced Blooms' Taxonomy.

• Remembering

• Creating

• Speculating

• Understanding

• Analysing

In order for knowledge of results (or feedback to students) to be effective several criteria must be met. Name four.

• Timely, non-spesific, private and constructive

• Generic, private, timely and non-threadning

• Highlight mistakes, brief, meaningful and timely

• Generic, brief, non-spesific and timely

• Meaningful, constructive, spesific and timely

What is meant by 'Distribution of Responses'?

• That all students have equal opportunity to respond

• That students who know the answers are selected to respond

• That students are provided wait time to effectively respond

When a teacher says: "Think to yourself for 10 seconds." .. is this overt or covert?

• Overt

• Covert

1. Research tells us that it is not unusual for 10 out of 30 students to answer 80 percent of the teachers questions when the questions are not framed effectively. True or False.

• True

• False

Re Bloom's Taxonomy, what level is this question at: "What solution to the problem do you favour and why?"

• Analyse -- you have to break information down and compare relationships

• Evaluation -- you have to judge and provide criteria.

• Understand -- you have to explain ideas and explain

Why is it important for teachers to have control over a taxonomy of thinking?

• Helps to provide more specific feedback to the student.

• If the student answers it incorrectly, you can modify the question more precisely.

• Helps you decide how much wait time to give students.

• Helps you to provide differentiated learning outcomes.

• All of the above

When are two main times we give wait time?

• After we ask the question and after we a student provided an incorrect response.

• After we ask the question and before we ask the student to respond.

• After we ask the question and after we ask the student to respond.

• All of the above