Question Types

Question 1

Identify Questions

Answer 1

• Name something
• No need to write full sentences
• One mark for each correctly named item

Question 2

Describe Questions

Answer 2

• Provide simple details about aspect of course
• Make short and sharp statements
• Who, what, when, where, how
• Chronological order
• Do not say why

Question 3

Explain Questions

Answer 3

• Give reasons for something and state effect of this
• Cause and effect, moving beyond justification
• Lock and Key (You chose something and what effect this had)
• Use terms such as ‘this means’ and ‘this leads to’

Question 4

Analyse Questions

Answer 4

• Look at process of doing or completing something
• Deconstruct and identify different parts involved in process
• Implication of this
• Impact this then has
• Identification, implication, impact

Question 5

Evaluate Questions

Answer 5

• Refer to end of process
• Look back on effectiveness
• Make a judgment
• Support judgment with evidence
• Should write in past tense
• Value, reinforce, impact