Probing Understanding

by Richard White, Richard Gunstone

Overview

This work aims to provide teachers at all levels and in all subjects with a greater range of practical methods for probing their students' understanding. These probes are presented in the manner of a starting set, to act as a stimulus to invention, rather than as a comprehensive list.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780750700481
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/02/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

White, Richard; Gunstone, Richard

Table of Contents

The nature of understanding; concept mapping; prediction - observation - explanation; interviews about instances and events; interviews about concepts; drawings; fortune lines; relational diagrams; word association; question production; validity and reliability.