Use of Modeling to Enhance Children's Interrogative Strategies

Investigated use of modeling procedures to teach constraint-seeking interrogative strategies to elementary school children (n=114). Used game of Twenty Questions to model and test subjects' question-asking behaviors. Results indicated that modeling procedures were effective in helping children...

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Published inJournal of school psychology Vol. 29; no. 2; p. 81
Main Author Johnson, Kathleen M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 1991
Subjects
Age Differences
Cognitive Processes
Elementary Education
Elementary School Students
Modeling (Psychology)
Questioning Techniques
Teaching Methods
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Summary:Investigated use of modeling procedures to teach constraint-seeking interrogative strategies to elementary school children (n=114). Used game of Twenty Questions to model and test subjects' question-asking behaviors. Results indicated that modeling procedures were effective in helping children learn to use constraint-seeking interrogative strategies, although better results were produced by cognitive than by exemplary modeling procedures. (Author/NB)
ISSN:0022-4405
DOI:10.1016/S0022-4405(05)80001-9