Teaching Prepared by Caroline W. Ndirangu

Questioning techniques
Questions play an important role in teaching and learning they are applicable in 
all teaching approaches and methods discussed above. It is one of the basic and 
successful ways of stimulating student’s thinking and learning
Teachers must ask many questions during a lesson. It is important therefore to 
develop the skill or technique of questioning. The goal is to be fluent in asking 
questions.
The types of questions asked and those used in testing are based on the Bloom’s 
Taxonomy
1.  knowledge
2.  comprehension             Low order cognitive questions                
3.  application
4.  analysis
5.  synthesis                        High order cognitive questions
6.  evaluation
Knowledge
i.  Recalling facts, i.e. what is the function of the phloem?
ii.  Recalling observations, i.e. what is the color of Iodine?
iii.  Recalling definitions, i.e.  What is diffusion? Saponification?
These questions usually have a single correct answer. They ask who? What? Where? 
When? Recall questions are answered accurately and specifically.
The number knowledge questions asked must be limited to a desirable propor-
tion.
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