Marzano
The 4 levels of Marzano's questioning technique.
Details, characteristics, elaborations, and evidence.
Define, list, match, recognize.
Verbs that support "remembering."
Questions that have an unlimited number of possible responses.
Open questions (or divergent).
Marzano's level in which a teacher asks students to explain more about characteristics.
Elaboration.
Explain, give examples, summarize.
Verbs that support "understanding."
Questions that have a finite number of possible responses.
Closed questions (convergent).
Marzano's level in which a teacher asks students to provide support for the characteristics they have provided.
Evidence.
Demonstrate, solve, predict, use.
Verbs that support "applying."
Type of closed question asked to determine whether or not students understand something that has been taught/learned.
Right/wrong questions.
Marzano's level in which a teacher asks students to recall or recognize information.
Details.
Judge, conclude, rate.
Verbs that support "evaluating."
Type of questions that do not have right/wrong answers, used to spark conversation.
Opinion questions.
Marzano's level in which a teacher asks students to focus on the general category.
Characteristics.
Compose, generate, produce.
Verbs that support "creating."
Most popular type of question asked in the classroom.
Closed/convergent (Knight) or knowledge level (Bloom).