‘What’s in a question? Good question!’: Jude Penny and Colin Forster explore what makes a good question and how this links with developing science capital.

This article outlines research that was undertaken with primary student teachers at the University of Gloucestershire, focusing on the development of their ability to deploy an appropriate number of carefully chosen questions in the teaching of primary science, adopting elements of an action research methodology to enable engagement with evidence-based evaluation of practice.