CONVERGENT AND DIVERGENT QUESTIONS

"Questioning helps students develop critical thinking and regards reasoning as an active process," therefore, there are two different types of thinking respectively:

Convergent questioning: (also called closed questioning) involves recalling information, given materials or previous experience, thus limiting responses. Students do not necesary analize their answers; instead, students make inferences from previous experiences.

Examples of convergent questioning:

• Who is the writer of Goldengrove?
• What does CBL stand for?

Divergent questioning: There is not one "correct answer" for this type of questioning; and asnwers are more open. Students have to solve problems and analize deeply before answer a divergent question. As a matter of fact, divergent questions greatly develop students' thinking skills.

 Examples of divergent questioning:

•  How can CBL be implemented in a basic level class?
•  How would you change the end of Goldengrove?