The art of Questioning

A good teaching involves good questioning, especially when large groups of students are being taught. There are types of questions according to thinking process from low-level to high-level, according to type of answers required and according to the degree of person exploration or valuing.

Descriptive categories of questions the first category cognitive memory question requires learners to reproduce facts, the second convergent questions require learners to generate their own data. The last is the evaluation question requires learners to make value judgment about quality, correctness or adequacy of information. Characteristic of good question are simple, clear, definite and should be adaptive to the age, abilities and interest to the learners.