Table 3.

Faculty members’ perception of the questioning technique

Description	Item	Mean percentage (%)	SD
Planning questions
	Prepare in advance	33.6	33.1
	Questioning impromptu without preparation	41.6	31.9
	No questioning	24.8	30.2
Time of questioning*
	In the introduction of class	16.3	19.7
	In the middle of class	67.0	30.4
	At the end of class	16.7	21.0
Intended answerer
	Individual	22.7	27.5
	Entire group	54.8	35.6
	Entire group → individual§	22.4	26.5
Type of question
	Open questions	66.7	24.8
	Closed questions	33.3	24.8

SD: standard deviation.

^* In the introduction of class, first 20 % of the total class hour in the middle of the class, in the middle of 20 %-80 % of the total class hour; at the conclusion of class, the last part of the class after 80 % of the total class hour.

^§if there was no answer from the questioned group, the question can be given to individuals.