Questioning Skills and Critical Thinking

1. Questioning Skills and Critical Thinking Asuncion A. Orbeso, Ph.D. Prof.6 Director, Curricular Reforms and Development CBSUA, Pili, Camarines Sur

2. RATIONALE • Education today aims at developing a • rational being • Questioning is crucial in realizing this goal and plays important role in • the teachingand learning process • But in spite of emphasizing higher order • questions for the total development of • students , teachers tend to often use • factual or recall questions

3. Questioning leads to think and leads to • understanding • Variety of questions develop critical • thinking • For students to display critical thinking , • they need to develop the skills in interpreting, analyzing, reasoning and evaluating • The skills in questioning develop • critical thinking, consequently • develop effective learners

4. OVERALL OBJECTIVE To capacitate teachers along questioning and critical thinking development

5. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES • Determine the type of questions • teachers pose to students. • 2. Determine the oral and written • questioning skills of teachers. • 3. Find out if questioning skills of • teachers influence the critical • thinking skills of students. • Conduct training on questioning • skills and developing critical • thinking skills of students.

6. Inference Interpreting Interpretation Analyzing Questioning Skills Critical Thinking Skills Transfer Hypothetical Reasoning Reflective Evaluating Academic Achievement Theoretical Model

8. METHODOLOGY Research Location : Camarines Sur Respondents of the Study : Science teachers and students in the secondary laboratory school in the different SUCs in Camarines Sur

9. SAMPLING DESIGN Science teachers – census sampling Students – Sample size (Slovin’s formula, stratified proportionate sampling and lottery technique)

10. Research Design - Descriptive evaluative research Data Collection • Questionnaire – to gather • data on profile of • teacher respondents

11. Data Collection • Structured Observation Method – to determine the oral questioning skills of teachers, teachers’ facility of language and assessment ability (Rubric). • Documentary analysis • – to determine the written questioning skills of teachers (Rubric).

12. Data Collection 4. Teacher – made test – to determine the critical thinking skills of the students

13. DATA ANALYSIS • Frequency count and percentage – to present profile of teacher respondents • Weighted mean • – to determine the to determine the oral and written questioning skills of teachers, facility of language and assessment ability

14. DATA ANALYSIS • Mean and Standard deviation • – to present the critical thinking skills of students • Pearson r • – to determine relationship between questioning skills of teachers and critical thinking skills of students

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