Questioning Strategies
An SI Leader can use this type of question when trying to "go deeper" and "get more information"
What is a probing question?
SI Leaders use this engagement strategy to help students remember everything they can about a particular idea or subject.
What is a "mind dump"? (brain dump)
This type of assessment is used when SI Leaders are determining which steps to take next
What is formative assessment?
SI Leaders give students 15 seconds of this to think things through before answering.
What is wait time?
This rule reminds SI Leaders not to talk to much during their SI sessions.
What is the 80/20 rule?
An SI Leader uses this type of question to better gauge a student's knowledge and/or understanding
What is an assessment question?
SI Leaders often put students in these configurations to promote collaborative learning.
What are groups or pairs?
This type of assessment is commonly used by SI Leaders to get a "scaled assessment" of students' understanding of content.
What is the "thumbs up, side or down assessment or 1-5 scale"
This chart depicts how much people typically remember 24 hours after learning new material
What is Dale's Cone of Experience?
Out of the three stages in the evolution of an SI Leader, SI Leaders are expected to avoid this one.
What is Stage 1? Or What is lecturing?
An SI Leader uses this type of question as a response to a student's question.
What is a redirecting question?
K-W-L is the name of an engagement strategy that SI Leaders sometimes use at the start and end of an SI Session; K-W-L stands for these three words.
What is "know, want to know, and learned"
SI Leaders will routinely ask students one of these "golden questions" as a form of assessment.
What is "can you walk me through?" OR "why" OR "what if"?
This word is defined as "learning about learning"
What is metacognition?
SI Leaders "rock back and forth" between these during their SI sessions.
What are stages 2 and 3?
This type of question creates opportunities for a student to express their own ideas or views
What is an open question? (open-ended)
This is what SI Leaders mean when they say they bring "2+1" to every SI session.
What is "two engagement strategies plus one in your pocket?"
This type of assessment can be used by SI Leaders when the SI Leaders wants to better understand the final picture.
What is summative assessment?
The Bloom's Taxonomy chart depicts these undergraduate skills that students use to earn As and Bs in college
What are "analyze and apply"?
In an SI sessions, whiteboards are "owned" by these.
What are students?
SI Leaders use this type of question to promote thinking, application and analysis of content.
What is a "high-level" question?
SI Leaders use engagement strategies to promote this type of student interaction in an SI Session.
What is collaboration?
Rather than assessing group understanding by asking an "entire group" if they are ready to move on to new content, it is very important for SI Leaders to assess students in this manner.
What is "assessing each student individually"?
SI Leaders use the SI Model and learning strategies to help students do this with information so that it will remain in long-term memory
What is encoding?
This is what it is called when SI Leaders smile, build relationships with students, provide "facetime", offer Mini SI, send emails and invite students to come to SI sessions.
What is outreach?