THE ART OF QUESTIONING OF SCIENCE TEACHERS IN DEVELOPING THE STUDENTS’ HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS AT NAVAL STATE UNIVERSITY, NAVAL, BILIRAN PHILIPPINES

The study generally aimed to find out the science teachers of Naval State University of the different programs compare in the questions they raised during their discourse when categorized according to thinking process involved, type of answers required and degree of personal exploration or valuing. Documentary analysis research approach was utilized with 12 Science teachers as respondents. It was identified that low-order questions are high than high-order questions in terms of thinking process. On the other hand, for the type of answer required, convergent questions prevailed over the divergent questions and questions answerable by one word or phrase is high as well as questions which require analysis. In terms of the degree of personal exploration or valuing, questions categorized into personal exploration of choosing freely got the highest percentage than asking questions. Furthermore, questions predominantly raised by the Science teachers of the different programs were mostly on knowledge level in Bloom’s taxonomy