Teaching Students to Form Effective Questions

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Main Author: Stafford, Tish
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Language:en
Published: 2009
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contents Teaching Students to Form Effective Questions Stafford, Tish School Libraries Counties Media Specialists Information Literacy Information Skills Questioning Techniques Scoring Content Analysis Grade 5 Elementary Secondary Education Investigations The ability to question lies at the heart of human curiosity and is a necessary component of cognition. The author stresses that forming questions is essential to human thought and communication. As such, forming questions is a foundational process that cuts across curricular areas and is embedded in content standards across the nation, including Cecil County. Clearly, it is one's professional responsibility to understand the complexities of the questioning process as deeply as possible. When the school library media specialists in Cecil County (Maryland) looked to content standards for guidance, however, they were struck by how little light they shed on the process of question formation or how questions work. In this article, the author discusses how school library media specialists helped students learn to form effective research questions. Faced with scoring students' questions on a system-wide benchmark test of information literacy skills, they turned first to their own library curriculum. (Contains 5 figures.)
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spellingShingle Teaching Students to Form Effective Questions
Stafford, Tish
School Libraries
Counties
Media Specialists
Information Literacy
Information Skills
Questioning Techniques
Scoring
Content Analysis
Grade 5
Elementary Secondary Education
Investigations
Teaching Students to Form Effective Questions Stafford, Tish School Libraries Counties Media Specialists Information Literacy Information Skills Questioning Techniques Scoring Content Analysis Grade 5 Elementary Secondary Education Investigations The ability to question lies at the heart of human curiosity and is a necessary component of cognition. The author stresses that forming questions is essential to human thought and communication. As such, forming questions is a foundational process that cuts across curricular areas and is embedded in content standards across the nation, including Cecil County. Clearly, it is one's professional responsibility to understand the complexities of the questioning process as deeply as possible. When the school library media specialists in Cecil County (Maryland) looked to content standards for guidance, however, they were struck by how little light they shed on the process of question formation or how questions work. In this article, the author discusses how school library media specialists helped students learn to form effective research questions. Faced with scoring students' questions on a system-wide benchmark test of information literacy skills, they turned first to their own library curriculum. (Contains 5 figures.)
title Teaching Students to Form Effective Questions
topic School Libraries
Counties
Media Specialists
Information Literacy
Information Skills
Questioning Techniques
Scoring
Content Analysis
Grade 5
Elementary Secondary Education
Investigations
url https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ869051