Abstract:

In 9th grade Turkish Language and Literature lesson it is stated that students' skills of asking questions can be improved through informative texts. In this research the evaluation of students' skills of asking questions through informative texts is aimed. In this research survey model was used. The universe of the research is composed of 9th grade students of 2011-2012 academic year, and the sample is composed of 357, 9th grade students living in Hendek, Sakarya and going on their education in different types of high schools. In this research in order to gather the necessary data, Montaigne's essay “Human Nature”. The students was asked to write 6 questions about the text and it was decided that the questions' of students belong to which step according to the Revised Bloom's Taxonomy and the difference according to the types of high schools was analyzed. The data was resolved by two researchers via SPSS 15.0 package program. It is important to reveal both for this research and future researches how much the ability of asking questions of 9th grade students' who finish primary education and start high school improve when an academic year finishes.

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