1. Questions and Questioning

2. Questions
One of the fundamental cognitive components that guide human reasoning
Threads of coherent reasoning are built around questions that humans ask and their answers
Evidence of moving from novice to expert is the quality of questions you ask

3. Students are not question askers (0.1 question/hour)
Students rarely ask questions and most of their questions are shallow.
Students can be trained to ask questions.
Students who are better question askers are better students.

4. Questions that Reflect Deep Comprehension
Why
Why not
How
What if
What if not

5. Why Study Questions?
Good comprehenders implicitly ask explanatory reasoning questions (why, how, what-if, what-if-not, what consequences)

6. Kinds of Questions Why - Why did events X occur?
How - How does process P occur?
What-If - What are the consequences of event E occurring?
What-if-not- What if state S did not occur?

7. Types of Questions Procedural/process - How do you do X?
Conversation - What did she say?
Relational - How much larger…?
Gist - What is the main idea?
Comprehension - What does that mean?
Implication - What would happen if?
Inference - Why did that occur? What caused that?
Prediction - What will happen?

8. Implementation: ASK Systems
Different kinds of questions:
Task oriented
Content oriented
Metacognitive
ASK system - Radiation