SSS: Using Questions to Teach & Learn

One stated goal of schools is to promote critical thinking. Usually, teachers use questioning as the means of attaining this goal. Questions may or may not promote critical thinking—depending on the approach to questioning in the classroom.

Student responses to questions help teachers assess how well students understand content. Responses also reveal students’ critical and metacognitive thinking patterns. Several researchers have established the fact that teaching students to think is a very complex process and caution that students must have domain knowledge (content that is related to the subject matter) to demonstrate their ability to think when responding to questions. This session will reframe the use of questions to improve students’ critical thinking skills.

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