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Mastering the Question Formulation Technique for Effective Inquiry

Learn how to generate insightful questions at different thinking levels using the Question Formulation Technique. Follow guidelines to improve and prioritize questions for better decision-making and problem-solving.

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Mastering the Question Formulation Technique for Effective Inquiry

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  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

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