What’s in a question?

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When it comes to challenging your students, are you asking the right questions?

A Danish teacher was filmed teaching a class of 13 students and, of 449 questions in total, 39.6% related to student knowledge and included questions that probed the students’ knowledge of academic content. The questions were mostly closed. Other types of questions encourage different and higher-level thinking skills. Teachers should be careful not to use too many closed questions.

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