The ability to ask and answer questions is central to
learning. For more than two thousand years (since Socrates)
the question has been an integral part of teaching. Only
within the last decade and a half, however, has extensive
research been directed to questions and questioning strategies.
The information which has been generated from this
research indicates that teachers largely have been asking the
wrong questions. We have been focusing primarily on
questions regarding the specific information students possessed
rather than questions to promote learning.