Definition
A question is any sentence which has an interrogative form or function. In classroom settings,
teacher questions are defined as instructional cues or stimuli that convey to students the content elements
to be learned and directions for what they are to do and how they are to do it.
The present review focuses on the relationship between teachers' classroom questioning behaviors
and a variety of student outcomes, including achievement, retention, and level of student participation.
This means that certain other subtopics within the general area of questioning are excluded from the
present analysis. It does not deal, for example, with the effects of textual questions or test questions, and
it is only incidentally concerned with methods used to impart study skills, including questioning strategies,
to students.