4. By taking a current lesson of one of the auxiliary organizations, illustrate the work done in a good review. 5. Why it is of vital importance that a teacher give special preparation to a review? 6. Show how good class preparation is conditional upon the proper kind of assignment. 7. What are the characteristics of a good assignment? 8. What is the best time for making the assignment? 9. Show how to make a good assignment of a current lesson from one of the organizations. HELPFUL REFERENCES Betts, _The Recitation_; Betts, _How to Teach Religion_; Colvin, _The Learning Process_; Colgrove, _The Teacher and the School_; Strayer and Norsworthy, _How to Teach_. CHAPTER XXI THE QUESTION AS A FACTOR IN EDUCATION OUTLINE--CHAPTER XXI Taking Stock.--Miss Stevens' study on questioning.--Miss Stevens quoted.--Various types of questions: a. The review question; b. The fact question; c. The leading question; d. The thought or challenging question.--Some questions on questioning. How many questions do you ask regularly during a recitation? What proportion of those questions are answered in full and complete statements? How many of the answers to your questions are a matter merely of memory? How many reveal original, creative thinking? Such questions as these not only impress us with the force of the question as a means of teaching, but they lead us to examine into our own method of asking them. The whole teaching process so easily and unconsciously develops into a matter of routine that it is good practice occasionally to take stock of ourselves. It is surprising to find how many teachers develop a particular type of question which becomes their sole stock in trade. Miss Ronniett Stevens, in her thesis, _The Question as a Measure of Efficiency in Instruction_, has made one of the most enlightening studies yet made on the matter of questioning. Her results are quoted by Weigle, in his _Talks to Sunday School Teachers_, in a passage of interest, not only because of Miss Stevens' findings, but also because of Mr. Weigle's own conclusions: