Sequence of Steps

Kathleen Cotton in her article, "Classroom Questioning" (1998) outlines what a students does, both consciously or unconsciously after he is approached with a question.

Students, when faced with a question:

Attend to the question

Decipher the meaning of the question

Generate a covert response (i.e., formulate a response in one's mind)

Generate an overt response; and often

Revise the response (based on teacher-probing or other feedback)

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