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TABA QUESTIONING STRATEGY DESIGN
created by Hilda Taba, based on the work of Piaget
Careful questioning can be
used to help students at many different levels and in many different classes
progress to higher levels of thinking and understanding. Instructors can
plan discussions, moving from a level of simple factual understanding
to drawing infereences, applying information to new situations, and eventually
to evaluating information. When questioning a group, allow each person
to contribute just one response, in order to involve more people.
| Level of Question | Thinking Skill | Sample Questions |
| Deductive Reasoning | Evaluation |
Did it work? How successful was it? Were the results as predicted? |
| Inductive Reasoning | Application (either hypothetical or actual) |
If ....then...? Suppose that...? |
| Making generalizations (conceptualization) |
What conclusions can you draw? |
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| Drawing inferences about relationships | Why do you think...? | |
| Affective Identification |
What was your reaction to...? How did it make you feel...? |
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| Perception |
What happened? What do you know about...? What did you see...? |
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| Factual Understanding | Common Experience/Demonstration |
Who...? Where...? When...? Demonstrate what occurred, how to do something, and so on, using props, audio-visual aids, etc. |