Transcript Costa`s Levels of Questioning

Costa’s Levels of Questioning
One who asks a question is a fool for five
minutes; one who does not ask a question
remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Lesson Plan for Teaching
Costa’s Three Levels
• Students will learn the concept of
Higher Order Thinking
• Students will practice formulating
questions of increasing complexity
• Students will reflect on how
questioning skills can help them learn
Level One
Knowledge
Comprehension
Define
Restate
Repeat
Label
List
Identify
Describe
Summarize
Recall
Paraphrase
Level Two
Application
Analysis
Use
Analyze
Practice
Differentiate
Diagram
Revise
Contrast
Experiment
Construct
Generate
Level Three
Synthesis
Evaluation
Combine
Debate
Organize
Conclude
Judge
Interpret
Predict
Justify
Measure
Argue
There are one-story intellects, two
story intellects, and three-story
intellects with skylights. All fact
collectors, who have no aim beyond
their facts, are one-story men.
Two-story men compare, reason,
generalize, using the labors of the
fact collectors as well as their own.
Three-story men idealize, imagine,
predict--their best illumination
comes
from above, through the skylight.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Level 1 Questions…
• Level 1 is like the ground floor- the
foundation of a building- important
information you need to have, such as
definitions, numbers, formulas.
– The answers can be found in the text or other
sources
– Very concrete and pertains to the text
– Asks for facts about what has been heard or read
– Information is recalled in the exact manner/form
it was heard
Level 2 Questions…
• The answer can be inferred from the text
• Although more abstract than a Level 1
question, it deals only with the text
• Information can be broken down in parts
• Involves examining in detail, analyzing motives
or causes, making inferences, finding
information to support generalizations or
decision making
• Questions combine information in a new way
Level 3 Questions…
• The answer goes beyond the text
• Is abstract and does not pertain to the text
• Ask that judgments be made from
information
• Gives opinions about issues, judges the
validity of ideas or other products and
justifies opinions and ideas
• Provoke discussion of abstract ideas or issues
Practice
• Looking at your picture, formulate a
question for each level.
• Post on post-it chart to share and
analyze with class.