[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"doc-seo-601285-105":3,"detail-sidebar-cat-0-en-105":81,"doc-detail-601285-en":130},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":6},0,"ok",{"site_id":7,"language":8,"slug":9,"title":10,"keywords":11,"description":12,"schema_data":13,"social_meta":74,"head_meta":76,"extra_data":78,"updated_unix":80},105,"en","what-makes-authentic-questions-authentic","What Makes Authentic Questions Authentic?","","The article analyzes the concept of “authentic questions” in dialogic pedagogy research, showing that the term is less clear than commonly assumed. It examines heterogeneous descriptions and conflicting classifications across studies and identifies four implicit conceptual elements that cannot fully be reconciled. The analysis highlights mutual recognition and respect as an underlying theme and recommends that future research include this theme explicitly when identifying authentic questions.",{"@graph":14,"@context":73},[15,34,56],{"@type":16,"itemListElement":17},"BreadcrumbList",[18,23,27,31],{"item":19,"name":20,"@type":21,"position":22},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",1,{"item":24,"name":25,"@type":21,"position":26},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",2,{"item":28,"name":29,"@type":21,"position":30},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/research-report/","Research & Report",3,{"item":32,"name":10,"@type":21,"position":33},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/what-makes-authentic-questions-authentic/601285/",4,{"url":32,"name":10,"@type":35,"image":36,"author":41,"headline":10,"publisher":44,"fileFormat":47,"inLanguage":8,"description":12,"dateModified":48,"datePublished":49,"encodingFormat":47,"isAccessibleForFree":50,"interactionStatistic":51},"DigitalDocument",{"url":37,"@type":38,"width":39,"height":40},"https://docshare.wps.com/thumbnails/what-makes-authentic-questions-authentic/601285.png","ImageObject",300,407,{"name":42,"@type":43},"hdkawk","Person",{"url":19,"name":45,"@type":46},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-11-04","2026-10-15",true,{"@type":52,"interactionType":53,"userInteractionCount":55},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":54},"ViewAction",8,{"@type":57,"mainEntity":58},"FAQPage",[59,65,69],{"name":60,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":62},"What does the article say about the clarity of the term “authentic question”?","Question",{"text":63,"@type":64},"It argues that the concept is less clear than assumed because studies provide heterogeneous descriptions and definitions, and classifications vary across the literature.","Answer",{"name":66,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":67},"What implicit conceptual elements are identified in “authentic question”?",{"text":68,"@type":64},"The analysis identifies four different implicit conceptual elements in “authentic question,” some of which cannot be reconciled with each other.",{"name":70,"@type":61,"acceptedAnswer":71},"What underlying theme does the article highlight in descriptions of authentic questions?",{"text":72,"@type":64},"It highlights mutual recognition and respect as an important underlying theme in how authentic questions are described.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":32,"og:type":75,"og:title":10,"og:site_name":45,"og:description":12},"article",{"robots":77,"canonical":32},"index,follow",{"doc_id":79,"site_id":7},601285,1792160538,{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":83},"success",[84,88,92,96,101,106,111,114,119,122,126],{"id":22,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":85,"show_sort_weight":86,"slug":87},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":26,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":89,"show_sort_weight":90,"slug":91},"Literature",80,"literature",{"id":33,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":97,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":98,"show_sort_weight":99,"slug":100},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":102,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":103,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":105},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":107,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":108,"show_sort_weight":109,"slug":110},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":55,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":29,"show_sort_weight":112,"slug":113},30,"research-report",{"id":115,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":116,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":118},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":117,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":117,"slug":121},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":123,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":124,"show_sort_weight":123,"slug":125},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":127,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":25,"category_name":128,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":129},19,"General","general",{"code":4,"msg":82,"data":131},{"doc_id":79,"user_id":132,"nickname":42,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":55,"category_name":29,"doc_title":10,"doc_description":12,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":55,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":22,"is_downloadable":22,"audit_status":22,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":8,"site_id":7,"html_lang":8,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":12,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},3985747859855,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_276721f389ce27ea32af1340a28f341c","ISSN: 2325-3290 (online)  \nWhat Makes Authentic Questions Authentic?  \nCaroline Schaffalitzky  \nUniversity of Southern Denmark, Denmark  \nAbstract  \nIn some approaches to dialogic pedagogy research, authentic questions have long attracted attention, since the prevalence of authentic questions has been used as an indicator of the dialogic quality of classroom activities. However, this article offers an analysis of the concept of authentic questions in the research literature and shows that this concept is less clear than is commonly assumed. For instance, descriptions and definitions offered are very heterogeneous even within particular studies, and classifications of authentic questions vary across research literature. The analysis identifies four different, implicit conceptual elements in “authentic question”— some of which cannot be reconciled. The analysis also identifies an important underlying theme, namely mutual recognition and respect, in descriptions of authentic questions. Accordingly, the article concludes with the recommendation that future research on authentic questions includes this theme explicitly in reflections on the identification of authentic questions.  \nKeywords: Authentic questions; Conceptual analysis; Methodology; Teacher-student interaction  \nCaroline Schaffalitzky is a Ph. D. in philosophy and associate professor at the Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark where she is also head of the research and development project Philosophy in Schools. Her research interests include methodological and theoretical discussions in education, research ethics, dialogic pedagogy, and philosophy with children and she has published both research articles and textbook materials within these areas in Danish and English. Recent publications include “Learning to facilitate dialogue: on challenges and teachers’ assessments oftheir own performance”(Educational Studies, 2021) and “Children’s experiences of online philosophical dialogues” (Childhood & Philosophy 2021 , with S.S. Jensen and F. Schou-Juul) .  \nÏÒÒ  \n“Authentic questions” in educational research and practice  \nThere is no clear consensus on how to characterize a dialogue in a classroom discourse and how to study it (e.g. , Howe & Abedin, 2013, pp. 326-327; Matusov, 2018) . However, since the 1990s, there is a growing body of literature in dialogic pedagogic research that uses “authentic question” as key term. Within this research, the concept of “authentic questions” – together with uptake and level of evaluation – has been taken as an important indicator of the degree of discourse dialogicity (for overviews, see e.g. , Nystrand, Wu, Gamoran, Zeiser, & Long, 2003, pp. 138-139; Reznitskaya & Glina, 2013, pp. 49-50; Skidmore, 2016) . A high prevalence of authentic questions in classroom interactions indicates a dialogical discourse. In contrast, traditional instruction has been described as recitation characterized by “closed teacher questions, brief recall answers and minimal feedback that requires children to report someone else’s thinking rather than to think for themselves” (Alexander, 2008, p. 93) . The dialogic classroom is described as one that is collective, reciprocal, supportive, cumulative, and purposeful (Alexander, 2008, p. 185) .  \nDialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal | [http://dpj.pitt.edu](http://dpj.pitt.edu)  \nDOI: 10.5195/dpj.2022.428 | Vol. 10 (2022) A30  \nWhat Makes Authentic Questions Authentic?  \nCaroline Schaffalitzky  \nIn this body of research, “authentic question” is offered as a clear category, but in this article, I argue that a closer look at the description of authentic questions within this research shows that the term is used in a variety of ways. First, the conceptual definitions of “authentic questions” are entangled with descriptions of their functions and effects. Second, classifications, descriptions and definitions offered are rather heterogeneous and, in some cases, possibly e","cbCaimJE4DDXyHRZ","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimJE4DDXyHRZ","pdf",293869,13,"English","# “Authentic questions” in educational research and practice\n## Conceptual clarity and research use\n# What Makes Authentic Questions Authentic?\n## Functions, context dependence, and teacher-student differences","[{\"question\":\"What does the article say about the clarity of the term “authentic question”?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that the concept is less clear than assumed because studies provide heterogeneous descriptions and definitions, and classifications vary across the literature.\"},{\"question\":\"What implicit conceptual elements are identified in “authentic question”?\",\"answer\":\"The analysis identifies four different implicit conceptual elements in “authentic question,” some of which cannot be reconciled with each other.\"},{\"question\":\"What underlying theme does the article highlight in descriptions of authentic questions?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights mutual recognition and respect as an important underlying theme in how authentic questions are described.\"}]","What Makes Authentic Questions Authentic? | PDF",1792092329,33]