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Encouraging Higher level Thinking by the use of Questioning strategies

Seeking solution for various problems that oppose the traditional model of education, modem teaching encourages the use of Socratic method whose purpose is to challenge learners' ideas through questions and answers in discussions, to discover the truth and to lead them towards new knowledge. Posing higher level questions based on Bloom's Taxonomy, learners develop their cognitive skills through analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Aiming to analyze learners' participation and their readiness to formulate higher level questions under the influence of the teaching technology, a research was conducted in the subject of civic education. Research population sample comprised 126 pupils, as well as the 5 teachers of several schools in Kosovo. The data was collected through a survey conducted amongst the pupils, and interviews realized with the teachers. In order to motivate the pupils to ask higher level questions, the projector, CDs and the computer were used. Research findings show the tendency of the increase of pupils' motivation for formulating questions that develop higher level thinking and reflection in responding as a result of the use of the teaching technology, but, at the same time, they indicate the low level of their application in the teaching practice. The situation of poor application of questioning strategies which stimulate the development of higher level thinking, as well as the lack of use of the teaching technology has to be changed in order that the teaching process changes and educational needs are success.fully realized.

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