CHAPTER 13Asking and Answering Questions
Asking good questions is an important lecturer responsibility, yet it is often done ineffectively, and few students respond. Some general suggestions for asking questions follow.
- Ask some questions that are pitched at a level that most students could answer so that more than just the highest-achieving students have a chance to participate.
- Try a mix of close-ended and open-ended questions. Asking closed questions, ones with a correct answer or a limited number of correct responses, enables you to make a quick assessment of student understanding of the information they have just heard. In addition, some students will simply be more comfortable answering a question for which they are sure they know ...
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