TY - JOUR
T1 - Asking a Great Question
T2 - A Librarian Teaches Questioning Skills to First-Year Medical Students
AU - Adams, Nancy E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©, Nancy E. Adams.
PY - 2015/10/2
Y1 - 2015/10/2
N2 - In a single one-hour session, first-year medical students were taught a framework for differentiating between lower-order questions that lead to knowledge of facts and higher-order questions that lead to integration of concepts and deeper learning, thereby preparing them for problem-based learning (PBL). Students generated lists of questions in response to an assertion prompt and categorized them according to Bloom's Taxonomy. These data were analyzed in addition to data from the course exam, which asked them to formulate a higher-level question in response to a prompt. Categorizing questions according to Bloom's Taxonomy was a more difficult task for students than was formulating higher-order questions. Students reported that the skills that they learned were used in subsequent PBL sessions to formulate higher-order learning objectives that integrated new and previously-learned concepts.
AB - In a single one-hour session, first-year medical students were taught a framework for differentiating between lower-order questions that lead to knowledge of facts and higher-order questions that lead to integration of concepts and deeper learning, thereby preparing them for problem-based learning (PBL). Students generated lists of questions in response to an assertion prompt and categorized them according to Bloom's Taxonomy. These data were analyzed in addition to data from the course exam, which asked them to formulate a higher-level question in response to a prompt. Categorizing questions according to Bloom's Taxonomy was a more difficult task for students than was formulating higher-order questions. Students reported that the skills that they learned were used in subsequent PBL sessions to formulate higher-order learning objectives that integrated new and previously-learned concepts.
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U2 - 10.1080/02763869.2015.1052691
DO - 10.1080/02763869.2015.1052691
M3 - Article
C2 - 26496396
AN - SCOPUS:84944872429
SN - 0276-3869
VL - 34
SP - 418
EP - 427
JO - Medical Reference Services Quarterly
JF - Medical Reference Services Quarterly
IS - 4
ER -