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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Johnson, Stanley A

Titel

The Effect of Using Two Alternative Approaches to Questioning on the Length of Student Responses in Nine LDS Seminary Classrooms

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

1987

Quelle

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• It was the purpose of this study to determine the influence of two alternative approaches to questioning on the length of student responses in nine LDS seminary classrooms. The method used to analyze the data was a pretest-posttest control group design with double pretests and double posttests. The procedure used to measure the variables was Dillon's test of student participation and the equipment used was a tape recorder. The experimental and control groups were nine teachers and their selected classes at Orem High Seminary. The findings were that seminary teachers trained in lower versus higher questioning techniques and two alternative approaches (deliberate silence and an invitation to elaborate) elicit more student talk, presented fewer questions, and elicited more student talk after each teacher question or statement. The use of alternative approaches help students to feel the teacher values their responses and allows the students more time to think and respond.