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ERIC Number: EJ1231561
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 5
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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Stimulating and Sustaining Inquiry with Students' Questions
Minigan, Andrew P.; Westbrook, Sarah; Rothstein, Dan; Santana, Luz
Social Education, v81 n5 p268-272 Oct 2017
In 2011, Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana of the Right Question Institute first wrote about the Question Formulation Technique (QFT), a simple yet rigorous stepwise process to teach all students how to ask better questions, in their book "Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions". Through the QFT, students learn how to generate their own questions, improve and work with their questions, and strategize on how to use their questions as a part of a structured active-learning experience. Students develop three thinking abilities: divergent thinking, convergent thinking, and metacognition. Educators are able to design and tailor different components of the QFT to make the strategy even more effective for their students and to further enhance teaching and learning in their classroom. This article describes the QFT process, a simple and rigorous technique that enables students to develop their ability to ask questions as they plan and drive their own inquiries.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Illinois; Texas (Austin); California
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