Entry #8 What are convergent and divergent questions? How can these types of questions help students initiate addressing reasoning as an active process?

Questioning skills help students develop critical thinking.The two types of questioning are: Convergent and divergent questioning.


Convergent Questioning:
Are those that involve recall and limits answers to questions to a single or small number of responses.  When answering these questions; learners can answer spontaneously, they don't need to analyze the answer. These question  are testing rote knowledge of concrete facts .Students may  make reference from previous experiences
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Instances of convergent questioning:

-  The meaning of a particular word.
- Who is the author of the book that we are  reading?
- Who are the characters?

Divergent questioning

In this case, answers are more open; these allow the students express themselves. Students to answer divergent  quiestioning not  only need to recall, they have to reflect and  analyze the responses; When we use divergent questions in our classroom, we encourage students to think out of the box; to think by themselves .
“So, to use convergent and divergent questions in our classrooms to make independent thinker ”