Question Types

Level 3: Divergent Thinking

 

Divergent thinking questions are those which represent intellectual
operations wherein you are free to generate independently your own
ideas, or to take a new direction or perspective on a given topic.

Thought processes involved while asking and answering these questions
are predicting, hypothesizing, inferring, or reconstructing.

Divergent thinking questions begin with these words or phrases:
Imagine...
Suppose...
Predict...
If..., then...
How might...
Can you create...
What are some possible consequences...

Examples of divergent thinking questions:

Can you imagine ways that soccer typifies Mexican culture?
Suppose that Caesar never returned to Rome from Gaul. Would the Empire have existed?
What predictions can you make regarding the budget surplus if Bush wins?
How might life in the year 2100 differ from today?
The computer corrects spelling. Is it then unnecessary for third graders to take spelling tests?

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