ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Qualities of Good Discussion Questions. A Checklist of the Qualities of Good Discussion Questions: clear, interpretive, specific, doubt, answerable and care or concern. A clear question says what it means so that no one has to guess what questioner has in mind. Since the primary aim of shared inquiry is to increase one own and the groups understanding of the reading, center on questions of interpretation. A good discussion question specific, that is, tailor-made so that it asked only of one reading and not of another. There doubt in mind of the person who formulated the question for it to function in discussion. Without the vital element of doubt about the answer to the question, there can be no increase in understanding or insight. Avoid questions that go outside the text and ask a reader to offer a speculative answer, that is, one that cannot support one way or another from the text itself.
