Generating Questions From Lecture Notes

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Generating Questions From Lecture Notes

• Presented by the
• Tomás Rivera Center

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Why generate questions from your lecture notes?

• Frame of reference
• Focus on structure
• Predict exam questions
• Passive learning becomes active
• learning
• A way to get feedback

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Types of Questions

• Mirror Questions
• Summary Questions
• Higher Level Questions

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Mirror Questions

• Reflect the facts and ideas from the lecture
• Ex What is social stratification? Who is Karl
  Marx?

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Summary Questions

• Sum up the theme or main idea of the information
  in your notes
• These questions are more general
• They summarize

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Higher Level Questions

• These questions require you to
• think at a higher level
• Usually start with why/how
• /compare
• ex Compare Conflict theory to
  Functionalism.