LEVELS OF QUESTIONSCoach J

What’s the big deal?

Learning takes place when you produce

knowledge not reproduce it.

Recognize a higher-level thinking question: Colleges want you to be able to dig deeper, use higher level thinking questions.

Needed for Tutorials and Socratic Seminars…so we can have a common language

?Remember

Define

Repeat

Name

List

State

Describe

Recall

Memorize Label Match

Identify

Record

Show understanding Give examples

Restate

Discuss

Express

Rewrite

Recognize Explain

Report Review

Locate Find

Paraphrase Tell

Extend

Summarize

Generalize

Level One

LEVEL I

FACTUAL QUESTIONS:

• have only one answer

• on the line- answers found in the text.

• very concrete

• info is recalled in the exact manner/form it was heard

• short answers (usually 1 or 2 words)

LEVEL I

Gathering and recalling information:

Level I questions start with:

define, describe, identify, list, name observe, recite, scan, explain, review locate, paraphrase

Your Turn

In your WTL, write down one level one question about Anthem.

?DifferentiateRelate

Solve

Pretend

Interpret

Analyze

Practice

DebateExperiment

Distinguish

Infer

Change

ExaminePrepare

Illustrate

Discover

Contrast

Compute

TranslateQuestion

DemonstrateCategorize

Use

CriticizeOperate

Imply Dramatize

Diagram

Compare

Level Two

LEVEL II

INTERPRETIVE QUESTIONS

•more than one answer w/evidence from the text

• between the lines.

• more abstract, one must manipulate the information to find the answer

• examines motives or causes

• involves finding info. that supports generalizations or decision-making

•Short answer or essay

LEVEL II

Making sense of the gathered information:

Level II questions start with:

analyze, compare, group, infer, contrast, sequence, illustrate, retell, synthesize, sort, diagram, summarize

Your Turn

In your WTL, write down two level two questions about Anthem.

?Conclude

Rate

Decide

Solve

Support

Model

Summarize

Judge

Estimate

Explain

Prove Multiple solutions

Justify

Check

Measure

Select

Teach

Evaluate

Choose

ValuePredict

Assess

Real-life

Hypothesize

Level Three

Apply

LEVEL III

EVALUATIVE QUESTIONS

• answer goes beyond text- Beyond the line.

• applying information

• answer depends on personal experiences, values, interpretation of literature, etc.

• asks for judgments to be made from information

• gives opinions about issues, judge validity of ideas

•Essay questions

LEVEL III

Applying and evaluating information:

Level III questions start with:

apply, evaluate, hypothesize, imagine, judge, predict, speculate, compose, construct, critique

Your Turn

In your WTL, write down three level three question about Anthem.

LEVEL II

LEVEL III

LEVEL I

Real learning takes place in levels II and III.

LEVEL II

LEVEL III

LEVEL I

Applying and evaluating information

Make sense of the information

Gather and Recall information

REVIEW:

Asking better questions

Reword the question using other words from the same Costa level.

Construct a new question using words from higher or lower Costa levels.

Use several level one questions to create a level two or three question.

Relate ideas from the question to: a personal experience, a movie, to the “big” questions of life, or random words (to find “hidden connections”).

If you don’t know how to answer the question, develop a new question that you predict will have a similar answer but is easier to discuss. Example: Change “What caused the Civil War?” into “Compare and contrast the North and the South before the Civil War.”

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Your Turn

Now with a group of classmates (preferably three or four): On socrative submit the best question for the second and third level of questioning about Anthem.