QuestionCraft is built on a unique synthesis of three research domains: traditional questioning research, modern AI prompting science, and evidence-based pedagogy. Below are the key academic sources that inform our approach.
Traditional Questioning Research (60+ Years)
Bloom, B.S. (1956)
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Longman.
Anderson, L.W. & Krathwohl, D.R. (2001)
A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy. Pearson.
Rothstein, D. & Santana, L. (2011)
Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions. Harvard Education Press.
Cooperrider, D. & Whitney, D. (1987)
Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change. Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Paul, R. & Elder, L. (2006)
The Art of Socratic Questioning. Foundation for Critical Thinking.
Dillon, J.T. (1988)
Questioning and Teaching: A Manual of Practice. Croom Helm.
Graesser, A.C. & Person, N.K. (1994)
Question asking during tutoring. American Educational Research Journal, 31(1), 104-137.
AI Prompting Research (2020-2025)
Wei, J. et al. (2022)
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models. NeurIPS.
Brown, T. et al. (2020)
Language Models are Few-Shot Learners. NeurIPS.
Kojima, T. et al. (2022)
Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Reasoners. NeurIPS.
Zhou, Y. et al. (2023)
Large Language Models Are Human-Level Prompt Engineers. ICLR.
White, J. et al. (2023)
A Prompt Pattern Catalog to Enhance Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT. arXiv.
OpenAI (2023)
GPT Best Practices: Prompt Engineering Guide. OpenAI Documentation.
Anthropic (2024)
Claude Prompt Engineering Guide. Anthropic Documentation.
Pedagogy & Learning Science
Hattie, J. (2008)
Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement. Routledge.
Dweck, C. (2006)
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Random House.
Sweller, J. (1988)
Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning. Cognitive Science, 12(2), 257-285.
Vygotsky, L.S. (1978)
Mind in Society: The Development of Higher Psychological Processes. Harvard University Press.
Knowles, M.S. (1984)
Andragogy in Action: Applying Modern Principles of Adult Learning. Jossey-Bass.
Ericsson, K.A. et al. (1993)
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance. Psychological Review.
Flavell, J.H. (1979)
Metacognition and Cognitive Monitoring. American Psychologist, 34(10), 906-911.
This is a representative selection of key sources. The full research foundation synthesizes 80+ academic works across questioning, AI prompting, and learning science. For access to the complete research documentation, please contact us.