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Psychology

Teacher Epistemic Cognition and Its Influence on Classroom Questioning Strategies

Quick fact

Research suggests that teachers with more sophisticated epistemic beliefs (who see knowledge as complex and evolving) tend to ask more open-ended, higher-order questions, whereas those with simpler beliefs (seeing knowledge as certain and handed down by authority) rely more on fact-recall questions.

Why this is interesting

You've probably sat in classes where the teacher only asked 'what happened next?' and others where they asked 'why do you think that happened?' What makes teachers choose those different questions?