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Costa’s Levels of Questioning

Costa’s Levels of Questioning. Preparing yourself for higher order thinking. Costa’s Levels of Questioning LEVEL 1. GATHERING: Answers come from the source Book Handout Notes Map (others). No thinking required – just point to the answer. Costa’s Levels of Questioning LEVEL 2.

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Costa’s Levels of Questioning

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  1. Costa’s Levels of Questioning Preparing yourself for higher order thinking

  2. Costa’s Levels of QuestioningLEVEL 1 GATHERING: Answers come from the source • Book • Handout • Notes • Map • (others) No thinking required – just point to the answer

  3. Costa’s Levels of QuestioningLEVEL 2 PROCESSING: Answers come from two places, • Source • Your Own Thinking

  4. Costa’s Levels of QuestioningLEVEL 3 APPLYING: You have to apply information you were given from the source. This level is all on you and your own thinking! (opinion questions)

  5. Costa’s Levels of QuestioningLEVEL 1 – WHEN / HOW TO USE IT… You can literally point to the answer in the source • Complete • Name • Observe • Match • Recite • Select • Scan • Count • Define • Describe • Identify • List

  6. Costa’s Levels of QuestioningLEVEL 2 – WHEN / HOW TO USE IT… If you have to compare/contrast two different things, or use your own thinking • Compare • Contrast • Classify • Sort • Distinguish • Reason • Infer • Sequence • Analyze • Synthesize

  7. Costa’s Levels of QuestioningLEVEL 3 – WHEN / HOW TO USE IT… If the answer can only be found by your own thinking • Evaluate • Generalize • Imagine • Judge • Predict • Speculate • If/then • Hypothesize • Forecast

  8. Costa’s Levels of Questioningorganize IT… Organize the words into the following categories: Level 1 : Input Level 2 : Process Level 3 : Output Define Evaluate Describe Imagine Classify List Apply Explain (why?) Distinguish

  9. Costa’s Levels of Questioningpractice IT… See if you can write some questions regarding the story of Cinderella: Level 1 : Input What are the names of the stepsisters? Level 2 : Process Compare and contrast Cinderella to one of her stepsisters. Level 3 : Output Identify the characteristics that make Cinderella’s stepsisters so undesirable to the prince.

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