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Closed - Ended and Open-Ended Questions

Closed - Ended and Open-Ended Questions. What’s the difference?. Closed-Ended Questions . Useful for extracting particular information. Often a yes/no answer. Can be a specific answer, but not detailed. Useful for stopping a story that goes on too long.

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Closed - Ended and Open-Ended Questions

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  1. Closed - Ended and Open-Ended Questions • What’s the difference?

  2. Closed-Ended Questions • Useful for extracting particular information. • Often a yes/no answer. • Can be a specific answer, but not detailed. • Useful for stopping a story that goes on too long. • Helpful to get interviewee (interview subject)talking. (“yes” answers are good to build their confidence)

  3. Examples • Did you learn something from the Social Studies lesson yesterday? (requires only a yes/no answer) • What was the strategy used to analyze and review the various documents? (specific answer - SOAPSTone) • Where were similar civil rights issues evident in 2011? (specific answer - Sussex County, DE)

  4. Open-Ended Questions • Call for non-specific answers. • Invites more detail or a story to be told. • Useful to elicit stories from interviewee.

  5. Examples (answers will vary) • What were some things you learned yesterday in Social Studies? • What variety of things did you discover after analyzing/reviewing the civil rights documents yesterday? • How are civil rights issues similar and/or different in 2011?

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