Facilitating The Question Formulation Technique (QFT)

1. Facilitating The Question Formulation Technique (QFT) www.rightquestion.org www.rightquestion.org

2. Rules for Producing Questions • Ask as many questions as you can • Do not stop to discuss, judge or answer the questions • Write down every question exactly as it is stated • Change any statement into a question What might be difficult about following these rules? www.rightquestion.org

3. Producing the Questions Question Focus: • Follow the Rules for Producing Questions. • Number your questions. www.rightquestion.org

4. Improve Your Questions You might have these three kinds of questions which reflect levels of thinking: • Level one questions – gathering information- identifying and recalling information (understanding and remembering) • Level two questions – processing information- making sense out of information; processing the information gathered by making connections and creating relationships (analyzing and applying) • Level three questions – applying information- applying and evaluating actions, solutions and connections made in order to predict (creating and evaluating) www.rightquestion.org

5. Improve Your Questions Identify the three levels of questions: • Mark level one ?’s- 1, mark level two ?’s-2, and mark level three ?’s-3 • Name advantages of asking level one questions… • Name disadvantages of asking level one questions… • Name advantages of asking level two questions… • Name disadvantages of asking level two questions… • Name advantages of asking level three questions… • Name disadvantages of asking level three questions… www.rightquestion.org

6. Improve Your Questions • Review your list of questions and change one level one question into a level two question. • Then, change one level two question to a level three question www.rightquestion.org

7. Prioritize Your Questions • Choose the three most important questions from your list. • Keep in mind the Question Focus. • Mark each priority question with an “X” www.rightquestion.org

8. Share Your Questions Please share: • The questions you changed from one level to the next. Read each question as originally written and how it was changed... • Your three priority questions • Your rationale for selecting those three • The numbers of your priority questions www.rightquestion.org

9. Next Steps • How are you going to use your three priority questions? www.rightquestion.org

10. Reflection 1. What did you learn? • What value does it have? www.rightquestion.org