Common errors in questioning

From: UPEI Summer Faculty Development Institute (Serge Piccinin), 2002. 

• Asking too many questions at once
• Asking a question and answering it yourself
• Asking questions only of the brightest or most likeable
• Asking a difficult question too early
• Asking irrelevant questions
• Always asking the same type of questions
• Asking questions in a threatening way
• Not indicating a change in the type of questions
• Not using probing questions
• Not giving time to think
• Not correcting wrong answers
• Ignoring answers
• Failing to see the implications of answers
• Failing to build on answers