The Practice of Questioning
By J. T. Dillon. 2025
243 citations recorded by the source corpus.
World of questioning. Part 1: domains of questioning: classroom questioning courtroom questioning clinic questioning - psychotherapy, medicine personnel interviewing criminal interviewing journalism interviewing survey questioning. Part 2: elements of questioning: notions of questioning actions of questioning alternatives to questioning research on questions vs alternatives.
Subfields: General Health Professions, Language and Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- Generating Instruction Automatically for the Reading Strategy of Self-Questioning (2009, background): “Human teachers tend to ask shallow questions [17].”
- Teaching biotechnology through case studies - can we improve higher order thinking skills of nonscience majors? (2003, methodology): “Based on Costa (1985), Dillon (1990), Shepardson and Pizzini (1991), and using TIMSS (Shorrocks-Taylor & Jenkins, 2000) taxonomy, we applied two levels of assignments in both the module and the tests: (a) Low level assignments, which require the students to recall knowledge and understand concepts.”
- Differential participation in whole-class discussions and the construction of marginalised identities (2004, background): “Here, the primary focus has been on the strongly imbalanced power relationship between teacher and pupil, enacted within conversations through highly controlled question and answer sequences (Dillon 1990; Wood 1992) or ‘cued elicitation’ (Edwards & Mercer 1987).”
- Opening classroom interaction: the importance of feedback (2006, background): “Dillon (1990) suggests the use of statements, for example, stating what is on your mind, or is of interest to you in relation to what the pupil has just been saying (similar to Searle’s non-directive speech acts; see Searle, 1979); signals such as phatics (‘oh that’s nice’) and fillers (backchannel…”
- Dialogic teaching: developing thinking and metacognition through philosophical discussion (2007, methodology): “This research has included the work of cognitive and cultural psychologists (Vygotsky, 1978; Bruner, 1996), discourse analysts (Dillon, 1990; Coulthard, 1990, 1992), psycholinguists (Halliday, 1993; Wells, 1999), sociocultural linguists (Barnes, 1995) and philosophers (Bakhtin, 1981, 1986; Lipman,…”
- Group work and whole‐class teaching with 11‐ to 14‐year‐olds compared (2009, result): “The data presented here corroborate much of the previous research on whole-class interactive teaching (Alexander, 2006; Hargreaves et al., 2003) which typically consists either of extended teacher direction or short sharp question-response sequences (Dillon, 1990).”