12.14 Questioning / Facilitation Techniques
Oral questioning has a wide range of uses in flight instruction. Questions that require the recall from memory of a fact usually start with who, what, when or where. Questions that require the student to combine knowledge of facts with the ability to analyse a situation, solve problems or arrive at conclusions usually start with why or how.
Eight desirable results of oral questioning
The instructor's use of oral questioning can have a number of desirable results:
- It reveals the effectiveness of your instruction.
- It checks the student's retention of what has been learned.
- It reviews material already covered by the student.
- It can be used to retain the student's interest and stimulate thinking.
- It can be used to emphasize important points.
- It checks student comprehension.
- It may identify points that need more emphasis.
- It promotes active student participation, which is essential to learning.
Where the questioning discipline is developed in depth
The full questioning, facilitation, and active-listening discipline lives in three other places in the cluster, with this section serving as the duty anchor that names questioning as a duty of the instructor:
- 3.5 Questioning (and the section files that follow it) is the depth treatment of questioning technique: types, structure, putting the question, handling student answers, additional techniques.
- 7.3 General Debrief Techniques is the post-session counterpart, where the same questioning techniques are applied to debrief facilitation.
- A1.4 Facilitation Techniques is the FSF / NASA upstream source for the facilitation question patterns.
Connections
- 3.5 Questioning. Depth treatment of questioning technique.
- 7.3 General Debrief Techniques. Post-session application of the same questioning discipline.
- A1.4 Facilitation Techniques. The FSF / NASA source for the question patterns the duty invokes.
- Facilitation. The primary instructional technique the questioning skill operationalises.
- 12.2 Instructor Competencies. Unit 4 Element B item f (demonstrates effective questioning skills) and Element C (demonstrates effective instruction and facilitation) are the framework anchors here.