🧠 Deep Processing Activation
Questions that begin with why and how compel the students to think deeper and so lead to learning that is not only by rote memorization but also by becoming meaningful conceptions and building connections between them.
🔗 Knowledge Integration
A question of this type will help to connect the new information to the existing one in the form of schemas and thereby the interconnected networks of knowledge that are created will not only become stronger but also allow different recall patterns typical of the person's flexibility.
💡 Causal Understanding
Inquiries related to why focus on the causative factors and the justification while the inquiries related to how reveal the steps and the overall procedure, both of which are very important in achieving a thorough and deep understanding of concepts.
🔍 Critical Thinking Development
The practice of asking why and how builds up the analytical skills, makes the learners to evaluate the evidence, spot the relationships and come up with the logical explanations without any help.
🎯 Self-Explanation Generation
The questions act as prompts and activate the self-explanation process where the learner either expresses the reasoning loud or in his/her mind, which leads to a considerable increase in understanding and retention of knowledge.
📊 Metacognitive Monitoring
Learners, when unable to give the why or how answers, will notice a gap in their knowledge thus directing themselves to the right area for review and making their self-regulated strategies for learning more effective.
🚀 Transfer Facilitating
Knowing the why and the how encourages the use of knowledge in different situations, thus, it is easier to let the transfer of learning to the new environment occur rather than sticking to the transfer that is dependent on the context and that is only through rote learning.