Levels of Questioning - Example

A model for asking questions based on an interview focusing on the 1960's.

1. Knowledge questions: List, record, define
   • Where did you go to high school?
     
     
   • Who played at the Altamont Rock Concert?
     
     
2. Comprehension questions: Explain, discuss
   • What was high school like in the Sixties?
     
     
   • What did you do for fun when you were a teenager?
     
     
3. Application questions: Apply, illustrate
   • What was a rock concert like in the Sixties?
     
     
• What kind of values did the Hippies have?
  
  
4. Analysis questions: Examine, compare, conclude, analyze
   • Compare the music of the Sixties to music of the Eighties?
     
     
   • How has the Hippie movement had a lasting impact in the 1980's?
     
     
5. Synthesis questions: Create, speculate, compose
   • Do you think drugs destroy the idealism of the Hippie movement?
     
     
   • Why do you think San Francisco played such a big role in the Sixties in regard to the Hippies? Music? Protests?
     
     
6. Evaluation questions: Judge, argue, justify
   • Would you classify the Sixties as either the best of times for the worst of times? Explain.
     
     
   • Do you think the Hippies were justified in "dropping out" of society?