research on test questions

[Gordon Ingram]

Hi Gerlind,

I suspect there might be quite a lot of educational research into this  
sort of topic, though obviously coming from a more applied  
perspective. It reminds me of a recent study by Siraj-Blatchford and  
Manni:

Siraj-Blatchford, I., & Manni, L. (2008). 'Would you like to tidy up  
now?' An analysis of adult questioning in the English foundation  
stage. Early Years, 28, 5-22.

This was an observational rather than an experimental study, but  
interestingly they found that 95% of adult questioning of preschoolers  
was in the form of closed questions, to which there was either one  
correct answer or no real answer at all. "Test" questions in your  
sense would seem to form a subset of "closed" questions as they define  
them, though they also included various sorts of rhetorical and  
"request" questions (like the one in their title), which would be  
similar to the test requests you refer to.

Hope this helps,

Gordon

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On 30 Jan 2009, at 11:05, Hauser, Gerlind wrote:

>
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am interested in research, especially experiments, on so-called
> "test questions" and test requests. By "test question" I mean
> questions (mostly from an adult to a child), where it is clear from
> context that the adult has the information he is asking for and thus
> asks in order to test the child's knowledge/memory or to simply
> interact with the child. Analogous there are also test requests, where
> the adult could perfectly take the object he is requesting also
> without the child's help.
>
> I would be grateful for any suggestions,
>
> Gerlind
>
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> Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 04103 Leipzig
> Work: 0049 341 3550 407
>
> >


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