What type of questions asked by a teacher are convergent questions?

Questions are an aid in the learning process and hence questioning skill is one of the important teaching skills required to be developed to conduct a successful classroom session by the teacher. Effective teachers use productive questions to help students advance in their thinking and to construct their own understandings.

Key Points

• Convergent questions assist in problem-solving and are useful for basic processes such as measuring, communicating, comparing and contrasting.
• These questions are called close-ended questions as students are not expected to contribute to an original idea. They are supposed to find one single and fixed answer.
• For example, if a teacher asks a question like, "What is the capital of France?" the convergent nature of the question means that there is a single correct answer, which is "Paris." This question has a specific and definitive response.