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English term or phrase:	open ended question
English translation:	What, Why, Where, When, and How questions
Entered by:	RHELLER

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15:07 Dec 25, 2003

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English term or phrase: open ended question

Include open-ended (short answer) questions. Open-ended questions require test participants to explain in full (1) what the graphic or text means and (2) what action they should take, or not take, in response to the message.

What is open ended question??

Kaori Myatt KudoZ activity Questions: 240 (8 open) (1 without valid answers) Answers: 548
Local time: 06:38

question which requires a thoughtful answer

Explanation:
not to be answered by yes or no

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sales before)? An open-ended question is a question that begins with
one of the following words: What, Why, Where, When, and How. An ...

www.becomeaplayer.com/articles/openendedeyecontact.htm

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Note added at 3 mins (2003-12-25 15:11:50 GMT)
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.. this person. Therefore, questions should be open-ended. An open-ended question is one that requires a long response. Most often, the ...
www.knowledgeworks.biz/disc-wp.html

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RHELLER
Local time: 22:38

Grading comment

Thanks a lot! All the answers were very helpful! Arigatougozaimashita!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +9

a question that is neither a "yes/no" question nor a multiple-choice question

Steven Capsuto

5 +4

a question for which one has to provide a self-costructed answer

Igor Deschenko

5 +3

my answer and something for discussion

Denyce Seow

4 +4

question which requires a thoughtful answer

RHELLER

5 +1

one whose answer is an explanation

Alaa Zeineldine

A question for which there is no pre-determined "right" answer

Refugio

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +9

a question that is neither a "yes/no" question nor a multiple-choice question

Explanation:
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Steven Capsuto
Local time: 00:38
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 16

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

question which requires a thoughtful answer

RHELLER
Local time: 22:38
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 1252

Grading comment

Thanks a lot! All the answers were very helpful! Arigatougozaimashita!

23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +4

a question for which one has to provide a self-costructed answer

Explanation:
Not an answer that was supplied for choice

Exapmle:
An open-ended question is...
(and you have to give your own answer of what it is)

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Also a \'special\' question - i.e. a question that begins with a \'Wh\' or \'How\' question word

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Sorry for having misspelled the word \'constructed\' in the answer provided above :)))!

Igor Deschenko
Ukraine
Local time: 07:38
Native speaker of:

Russian

1 hr confidence:

A question for which there is no pre-determined "right" answer

Explanation:
Another way of putting it, although the previous answers are also correct.

It is often used to distinguish an "essay" question (though the essay may be short) from a multiple-choice question.

Refugio
Local time: 21:38
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in pair: 485

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

my answer and something for discussion

Explanation:
I used to do Customer Service training programs and "Questioning Techniques" is a part of it. But honestly, till now, no one (not me either!!) can give a 100% concrete definition for "OE question" and "CE question".

Some says "OE questions" start with 5W1H (What, Who.... How) and some says "CE questions" get one-word or fixed answer(e.g. Yes/No). So, let's look at these:

Question: What is the name of your wife?
Answer: Jillian

Question: Who do you like best in class?
Answer: Tom Faulken

So, are these CE questions or OE questions??? Take a minute to ponder over this.....

For me, OE question = the answerer can say anything he or she wants, without any manipulation of his or her answer.

Sorry.... I am not trying to cause confusion here. Hmm.. maybe I should post this as another Kudoz question.

Denyce Seow
Singapore
Local time: 12:38
PRO pts in pair: 24

3 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

one whose answer is an explanation

Explanation:
This excludes questions whose answer is yes or no and multiple choice question as my colleagues indicated, but it also excludes questions whose answers are very direct and specific. For example "how old are you", "what is your name", or "what company do you work for" are not open ended questions.

On the other hand, examples of open ended questions are "how do you feel about the commercialization of the holidays?", "what do you plan do achieve after high school?", etc. The possibilities are, well, open. The answer usually includes an opinion, description, analysis, or it frequently entails talking about oneself.

Open ended questions are frequently not used to get information, but to make the other party comfortable, or to get them to start talking without inhibition. Certain professions are trained to use open ended questions to get information by hoping that an interviewee would digress into subjects they normally would not talk about. Detectives exploit this technique shamelessly!

A very good example is "what is an open ended questions?" as you must have realized by now:)

Alaa Zeineldine
Egypt
Local time: 07:38
Native speaker of:

Arabic,

English
PRO pts in pair: 198

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