The Right Question Institute makes it possible for all people to learn to ask better questions and participate more effectively in key decisions.
Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Questions
The Question Formulation Technique, created by the Right Question Institute, is a simple yet powerful strategy to teach students how to formulate their own questions. Learn the Question Formulation Technique today, facilitate the strategy tomorrow, and watch students become more curious, engaged learners.
Questioning, Advocating, and Participating in Democracy
Learn how asking questions and partnering in the decision making process can fundamentally change how individuals participate in democracy.
In the world of sales, being able to ask the right questions is more valuable than producing the right answers. Unfortunately, our schools often have the opposite emphasis. They teach us how to answer, but not how to ask. The folks at the Right Question Institute are trying to correct that imbalance. They’ve come up with a method that educators can use to help students learn to ask better questions—and that can assist even those of us who graduated back in the twentieth century.
Their level of engagement in the activity and each other’s ideas was not only exhilarating, but literally heart-warming.
I think it helps us build higher level questions. When we go over our questions and try to make them better, it helps us think. The questions help us dig deeper and go beyond basic facts and we develop questions that give us more than yes or no answers.
[The QFT] makes me feel like I’m in control of my learning.
Just when you think you know all you need to know, you ask another question and discover how much more there is to learn.
Hundreds of thousands of people across many fields are enthusiastically using RQI’s resources to help individuals develop their own ability to ask better questions and participate more effectively in decisions.
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Over 300,000 educators around the world have used the Question Formulation Technique, and the Right Question Institute and its strategies have appeared in the New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Atlantic, Education Week, and many other publications. See RQI in the Press
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