Types of questions and questioning skills of Thai language teachers ; prathom suksa five in Ban Pong district schools under the auspices of Ratchaburi provincial administrative organization
Abstract:
Purpose of the Research: The purpose of this research was to study types of questions and questioning skills of Thai language teachers in Prathom Suksa Five, Banpong district under the auspices of Ratchaburi provincial administrative organization. Procedures: Population used in this research was thirty Thai language teachers in Prathom Suksa Five of thirty elementary schools in Banpong district under the auspices of Ratchaburi provincial administrative organization. The research instruments were: the set of questionnaires asking Thai language teachers understanding about questioning types and questioning skills, and the other was the observation guideline of questioning types and questioning skills classified in six categories according to Blooms Taxonomy on Cognitive Domain. Besides the observation guideline of questioning skills was also classified in 12 items, six of them were grouped as the skills that teachers should use regularly and five items were the skills that they should not be often used, and the last item was the teachers behavior that the investigator could not classified them in the above items. All of the research instruments were revised by the educational experts. The investigator collected the data by observing and recording the teachers behavior, using the instrument that was already tested for validity and reliability. It was analyzed by percentage, mean and standard deviation. Findings: 1. Memory questioning types was used the most by Thai language teachers. The other types of questions were used lessly. Especially synthesis questioning type was not used at all. 2. The questioning skills that Thai language teachers should used regularly were used lessly: those were answering the questions one by one, looking at every student while asking a question, pausing in order to let students find the answer, permiting many students to answer the same question, changing questions more easier and praising students when they gave the correct answeres.