A Typology of Questions

 

Bloom's "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives"

A taxonomy of questions, NOT a classification of educational objectives

 

Bloom's Cognitive Domain Taxonomy

Not a complete taxonomy of questions

 

Rhodes' Typology (copyrighted 1995)

 

Content-directed Questions

 

Informational

Descriptive

Operational

 

Interpretive

Conceptual

Authority-related

 

Explanatory

Causal

Teleological

Historical

 

Procedural

Methodological

Technical

 

Relational

Priority

Spatial/Temporal

Comparative

 

Verificational

Evidential

Logical

Epistemological

 

Heuristic

Speculative

Investigative

 

Evaluational

Normative

Significance

 

Student-directed Questions

 

Rhetorical Questions

 

Ambiguous Questions

Content/student ambiguity

Are there any questions? (About what? Whose questions?)

Semantic

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