SMART QUESTIONS:
A question is a tool for generating knowledge, and a good one does this well. Read this great article.
(by Steve Snyder, professor of Humanities at Grand View University in Des Moines Iowa.)
Level One
1. Definitions and clarifications
How do you define this (word, term, idea, etc.)?
2. Contextuals
How was this idea (event, text, work, etc.) shaped by its time?
3. Analyzers
What parts or features make up the whole and what does each part do?
Level Two
4. Comparatives
How is this the same as that?
5. Causals
What factors caused this to happen?
8. Evaluatives
Why do you like or dislike this (or agree or disagree with this)?
Level Three
7. Counterfactuals
How would this change if X happened?
8. Extenders (Synthesizers)
How can we apply this to this set of circumstances?
A question is a tool for generating knowledge, and a good one does this well. Read this great article.
(by Steve Snyder, professor of Humanities at Grand View University in Des Moines Iowa.)
Level One
1. Definitions and clarifications
How do you define this (word, term, idea, etc.)?
2. Contextuals
How was this idea (event, text, work, etc.) shaped by its time?
3. Analyzers
What parts or features make up the whole and what does each part do?
Level Two
4. Comparatives
How is this the same as that?
5. Causals
What factors caused this to happen?
8. Evaluatives
Why do you like or dislike this (or agree or disagree with this)?
Level Three
7. Counterfactuals
How would this change if X happened?
8. Extenders (Synthesizers)
How can we apply this to this set of circumstances?