Advanced+Questioning+Skills

Just like in reading, where we have identified a range of core or foundational reading skills which are then supplemented by a range of more advanced skills, I am seeing the same structure with questioning skills. I believe there are a range of basic skills which enable us as effective questioners and a further more complex set of skills that then empower us as skilled questioners. The QuESTioning Rubric as outlined on my website and in the Questioning-skills wiki target the foundational questioning skills. These foundational skills are outlined below on the left. Alongside these skills are the advanced skills that further empower and effective questioner. I am sure that there is still more to add to this list because the deeper I work in questioning with people the more there is to discover. Ability to ask subsequent questions. || Ability to recognise relevant and irrelevant answers Ability to recognise, read, and interpret body language and question avoidance. ||
 * **Foundational Questioning Skills** ||
 * Advanced Questioning Skills**
 * Ability to recognise prior knowledge || Ability to identify significant components of information need. ||
 * Ability to identify an information need || Aware of, and able to strategically analyse and compensate for own world view, inferences, assumptions, bias, prejudice and fragile, ritual or naïve knowledge. ||
 * Ability to identify and understand the relevant contextual vocabulary. || Ability to locate and understand specific contextual vocabulary, knowing that words carry different meanings in different contexts and that specific contexts also often contain specific specialty vocabulary. ||
 * Ability to create a range of relevant questions. || Aware of how question phrasing can impact on the answer gained and able to construct questions accordingly. Able to phrase a question in different to make it suitable for the particular source being utilised. ||
 * Ability to take questions to a range of appropriate sources. || Ability to recognise the most appropriate available sources for specific types of information from the range of source options. ||
 * Ability to persist with questioning. || Ability to apply advanced questioning skills to troubleshoot the questioning process. ||
 * Ability to edit questions where necessary including the use of relevant synonyms of key contextual words || Ability to re-phrase questions.
 * Ability to edit questions where necessary including the use of relevant synonyms of key contextual words || Ability to re-phrase questions.
 * Ability to recognise the answers and extract the relevant needed information || Ability to use a range of appropriate strategies when extracting answers from non-intelligent sources.