question-and-answer method

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This does not give opportunity for practice enough in reciting on the part of the pupil, if the question-and-answer method is employed exclusively.

From The Recitation by Betts, George Herbert

Here and there we find superintendents, principals, and teachers who are shuddering away from the question-and-answer method both in the recitation and in the examination.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.

There is really no hard and fast line between the topical method and the question-and-answer method.

From The Recitation by Betts, George Herbert

Thinking.—In the process of synthesis the pupil is free to draw upon the entire stock of his accumulated resources, whereas in the question-and-answer method he is circumscribed.

From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.

When and where to employ the question-and-answer method.—The question-and-answer method is particularly adapted to the lower grades, in which the children have not yet developed the ability to recite independently on long topics.

From The Recitation by Betts, George Herbert