{"id":2824,"date":"2016-12-16T15:27:32","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-herkimer-intro-to-sociology-1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=2824"},"modified":"2016-12-16T15:27:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T15:27:32","slug":"creating-a-good-original-question","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/chapter\/creating-a-good-original-question\/","title":{"raw":"Creating a Good Original Question","rendered":"Creating a Good Original Question"},"content":{"raw":"<h1>Creating a Good Original Question<\/h1>\r\nFor each chapter in the textbook, your assignment will be to ask a question about some important issue, concept or theory and then facilitate the ensuing discussion. Other students get to choose which questions they respond to and which discussions they participate in. Unless you ask a \"good\" question, other students may not choose to respond to it and\/or you may have difficulty facilitating a meaningful discussion.\r\n\r\nA good question is one which will require students to use their <b>critical thinking skills<\/b>.\r\n\r\nA good question will require the respondent to demonstrate both <b>factual knowledge<\/b> of the content and a <b>comprehension<\/b> of how the knowledge applies to the behavior of people.\r\n\r\nIt should <b>not<\/b> be a simple \"look-up in the textbook\" question or just a \"what's your opinion?\" question.\r\n\r\nHere is an example of the kind of question I am looking for from you.\r\n\r\n<b>Discuss how both Nature and Nurture have contributed to your development. Which do you think was most important?<\/b>\r\n\r\nThis question requires <b>knowledge<\/b> (What are \"Nature\" and \"Nurture\"?) <b>comprehension<\/b> (applying the knowledge to a personal example), and <b>critical analysis <\/b>(Which do you think is most important?).","rendered":"<h1>Creating a Good Original Question<\/h1>\n<p>For each chapter in the textbook, your assignment will be to ask a question about some important issue, concept or theory and then facilitate the ensuing discussion. Other students get to choose which questions they respond to and which discussions they participate in. Unless you ask a &#8220;good&#8221; question, other students may not choose to respond to it and\/or you may have difficulty facilitating a meaningful discussion.<\/p>\n<p>A good question is one which will require students to use their <b>critical thinking skills<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>A good question will require the respondent to demonstrate both <b>factual knowledge<\/b> of the content and a <b>comprehension<\/b> of how the knowledge applies to the behavior of people.<\/p>\n<p>It should <b>not<\/b> be a simple &#8220;look-up in the textbook&#8221; question or just a &#8220;what&#8217;s your opinion?&#8221; question.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an example of the kind of question I am looking for from you.<\/p>\n<p><b>Discuss how both Nature and Nurture have contributed to your development. Which do you think was most important?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This question requires <b>knowledge<\/b> (What are &#8220;Nature&#8221; and &#8220;Nurture&#8221;?) <b>comprehension<\/b> (applying the knowledge to a personal example), and <b>critical analysis <\/b>(Which do you think is most important?).<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-2824\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Creating a Good Original Question. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: WIlliam Pelz. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Herkimer College. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/herkimer.open.suny.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/execute\/content\/blankPage?cmd=view&#038;content_id=_6277_1&#038;course_id=_82_1\">https:\/\/herkimer.open.suny.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/execute\/content\/blankPage?cmd=view&#038;content_id=_6277_1&#038;course_id=_82_1<\/a>. <strong>Project<\/strong>: Introduction to Sociology - Achieving the Dream course. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":60,"menu_order":2,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Creating a Good Original Question\",\"author\":\"WIlliam Pelz\",\"organization\":\"Herkimer College\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/herkimer.open.suny.edu\/webapps\/blackboard\/execute\/content\/blankPage?cmd=view&content_id=_6277_1&course_id=_82_1\",\"project\":\"Introduction to Sociology - Achieving the Dream course\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2824","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":2740,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2825,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2824\/revisions\/2825"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/2740"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2824\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/atd-herkimer-introsociology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}