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A teacher asks the following questions to her students: A) How do you use electricity? B) Why is copper used for making wire for carrying electricity? Which of the following is true regarding the nature of questions given above?

A teacher asks the following questions to her students: A) How do you use electricity? B) Why is copper used for making wire for carrying electricity? Which of the following is true regarding the nature of questions given above? Correct Answer A - Open-ended, B - Closed-ended

Questions are an aid in the learning process and hence questioning skills is one of the important teaching skills required to be developed to conduct a successful classroom session by the teacher. Effective teachers use productive questions to help students advance in their thinking and to construct their understandings.

Important PointsQuestions can be classified into:

Open-ended questions are the ones that don't have one specific answer or one specific way to answer a question. 

  • Features of open-ended questions
    • Encourage divergent thinking.
    • Avoid rote memorization.
    • Give freedom to the student to think in multiple ways to find a solution for a problem.
    • Take more time than close-ended ones.
    • The above question " How do you use electricity?" is open-ended because we use electricity in many ways like lighting, heating, cooling, and refrigeration and for operating appliances, computers, electronics, machinery, and public transportation systems. This question has many answers so it is open-ended.​

​Close-ended questions have only one specific method to find the answer or one specific answer. 

  • Features of close-ended questions
    • Give less freedom to the student to find the answer.
    • Have one specific answer.
    • Consume less time as compared to open-ended ones.
    • In the above example the question "Why is copper used for making wire for carrying electricity?" is close-ended because it has only a single answer since copper is a metal and it is a good conductor of electricity.

​Hence A - Open-ended, and B - Closed-ended is the correct option. 

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