Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Building Learning Structures Inside the Head

I thought it was interesting how Dr. Payne discussed that how a student poses a question in a situation can be telling of that particular student's reading comprehension score. The example given was that in a situation where a student would ask, "Do you have any more?" if a student asks, "You don't have any more?", a statement, not a question, than their reading/comprehension scores are probably lower than average. This particular problem was lumped right in with the inability to answer questions worded differently with practice questions. This information I felt was a bit general and a little disturbing, and I found myself self conciously wondering how many times I have used a statement in a question format, and whether perhaps this means that I'm not quite as proficient as I had previously assumed!

1 comment:

TexasTheresa said...

it does make one self-conscious, doesn't it? ;-)
it's not meant to be a hardfast rule, just something to raise your awareness and obviously, your awareness is now raised.
dr.theresa