Are You a Master on the Art of Questioning?

They are students of the famed Benjamin Bloom who became the primary authors of the revisions to what had become known as the Bloom's Taxonomy - an ordering of cognitive skills.

• Lorin Andersen & David Wohl

• Benjamin Bloom Jr. & Lorin Anderson

• Lorin Anderson & David Krathwohl

• David Andersen and Lorin Krathwohl

The type of questions we should ask depends on the skill/s we want our learners to develop at the end of our lesson.

• True

• False

Which of the following levels does NOT belong to the group?

• Analyzing

• Applying

• Creating

• Evaluating

In this cognitive level, the reader is involved by “putting himself/herself in the place of the character.” The learner makes use of information in a context different from the one in which it was learned.

• Analyzing

• Understanding

• Applying

• Evaluating

Which of the following activities fall under the CREATING level?

• Construct a graph to illustrate the information provided about the Diaz family's monthly spending.

• Design a new monetary system.

• Write a summary report of the event.

• Write a list of keywords you know about banks.

Questions which require answers that are not directly stated in the text but are suggested or implied fall under the ____________ level.

• Understanding

• Analyzing

• Remembering

• Creating

These three belong to the lower level thinking skills.

• applying, remembering, understanding

• remembering, understanding, analyzing

• creating, evaluating, analyzing

• remembering, applying, analyzing

Why do we ask questions?

• to make predictions

• to make sure we understand what we have read

• to help us become better readers by making us think

• all answers are correct

Which of the following does NOT make a good question?

• challenging and thought provoking

• simple and clear

• adapted to the age, abilities, and interests of the students

• uses highfalutin speech

When asking questions or introducing a lesson, the teacher should always start in the lowest level of cognitive thinking and then progress to the more complex levels.

• True

• False