How to earn this micro-credential badge
Micro-credentials in the SIM series enable teachers to verify skills in delivering instruction of the SIM Learning Strategies and Content Enhancement Routines and other educational programs offered through the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. To earn the micro-credential badge: - Click the green “join this badge” button and sign up/sign in if needed.
- Post your evidence specified in the “Required Evidence” section by clicking on the blue “Post” buttons, or you can click into the Evidence section and post from there.
The Question Exploration Routine helps students explore important questions and use the resulting knowledge in a variety of ways, providing a potential foundation for independent problem solving and higher-order thinking. The routine guides students in examining the critical question, key terms and definitions, supporting questions and answers, and a main idea that synthesizes the information into a concise answer to the critical question. The routine also helps students explore applications of the main idea to their lives.
Results of field tests show that teacher use of the Question Exploration Routine is associated with significantly higher test scores than when teachers do not use the routine. In one study, students who were taught a lesson using the Question Exploration Routine earned an average test score of 70 percent while students who were taught the lesson with traditional methods scored an average of 48 percent. Students with learning disabilities in the study earned a mean test score of 64 percent when the teacher used the routine compared to 34 percent for students with learning disabilities who learned the same information through traditional methods.Communicate with other badge earners on the Badge Wiki.
