TECHNIQUES OF

QUESTIONING:

B. KINDS
 Kind of questions teachers ask can
be categorized according to the ff:
1. The type of respond desired:
a. soliciting (asking for information)
b. Directing(proposing course of action to take,
guiding or redirecting, thinking, suggesting
alternative)
c. Responding(doing something called for)
d. Evaluating( agreeing or not,expressing
satisfaction,assessing)
2. The level of the lesson’s objectives:
a. Low level questions- they require responses of
simple recall or memory type of answer.
b. High level questions- these questions call for
analysis, synthesis, evaluation and
problem solving ability.
3. Their use and purpose:
A. For verification
-Verification is the determination of whether or
not as statement is true. It is described
according to the type of evidence appropriate to
their solutions.

1. Analytic questions.
- They are questions that ask for
definitions of terms translation or meaning of
phrases or statement. They are necessarily
true.
2. Empirical questions
- They are questions that elicit responses that
empirical statement. The response gained
through sense experience. It observed and decide
whether the statement is true or false.

3. Valuative questions
- Value statement praise, blame, comment,
and criticize or rate something.
B. For productive thinking
1. Cognitive – Memory questions
- requires only simple processes like
recognition or selective recall.
2. Convergent questions
- are those that typically have one correct
answer.
3. Divergent questions
- are used to encourage many answers and
generate greater participation of students.
4. Evaluating questions
- focus and provides structure to an
evaluation. Guide the evaluation planning
process.
C. For cognitive function:
1. Focusing questions – serve to introduce a topic
and indicate the direction of the discussion.
2. Foundations questions – they are question whose
function is to elicit responses as the basis of more
complex question or discussion of an ongoing
discussion or presentation of new information not
yet offered.
3. Extending questions – they are question that
clarify or elaborate upon the statement already
made.

4. Lifting questions – they elicit from the

respondents a level of thought higher or lower
complex than has already been established.

5. Promoting questions – the function of responses

that promote the flow of discussion.