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Art Costa is an educational researcher who has divided up questions into three categories depending on the quality of the question. He claims that if we just use the verbs listed below we'll be come better questioners, which in the end, also makes us better thinkers! So start using them!
Costa’s Levels of Inquiry
Level One questions cause students to recall information. This level of question causes students to input the data into short-term memory, but if they don’t use it in some meaningful way, they may soon forget.
complete, count, match, name, define, observe, recite, describe, list, identify, recall
Level Two questions enable students to process information. They expect students to make sense of information they have gathered and retrieved from long-and short-term memory.
analyze, categorize, explain, classify, compare, contrast, infer, organize, sequence
Level Three questions require students to go beyond the concepts or principles they have learned and to use these in novel or hypothetical situations.
imagine, plan, evaluate, judge, predict, extrapolate, invent, speculate, generalize
Thinking About What You Learn/ Process Information (see Response Journals)
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