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a) Memory questions
This is a method used when the teacher wishes his learners to recall information, emphasis facts, drill for retention of facts and obtain some measure of achievement.
They are aimed at assisting learners to develop and use critical thinking abilities about the lesson and create interest and come up with an answer.
Characteristics
1. It requires short answers.
2. Promotes guessing
3. Often have one correct answer i.e. a learner can give an answer using different words but the answer is correct.
4. Requires a little thinking.
5. It is based on knowledge rather than understanding (e.g.) which country won the 2006 World Cup? Italy.
Who was the best player in 2006 Word Cup?
b)The thought provoking questions
This method calls for knowledge and understanding.
The learners must be able to think and explain about the subject and produce a logical correct answer.
Guessing is minimal and critical learning is the result.
Characteristics
1. They challenge the learner’s effort more than the memory type
question; and command greater attention and reflection.
2. They stimulate further activity for judgment, analysis, organization, comparison, and understanding inside a logical thinking, i.e.
- Why do we clean a cow’s udder with warm water before milking?
- Why do we attach lining to a garment?
c) Divergent thinking questions
This is a variety of questions, which involve probing the learners. These questions demand for originality in the learners, and enable them to predict, hypothesize, infer or reconstruct. Different responses from different learners may be expected.
d) Evaluative Questions.
To answer any of them, the learner must have passed through all the other levels of learning and he should be somewhere at the productive skill level. To answer a question asking for his evaluation, the learner will have to have a wealth of information and understanding. Then he should have acquired the reproductive level of skills, only then will his response be proper to an evaluative type of questions. The learner will have to take a decision on a certain problem and he should be able to defend and justify his choice. They are used to evaluate the students after they have gone through the learning.
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