Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics)Jacques Brunschwig, Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd (eds), A Guide to Greek Thought: Major Figures and Trends, Harvard University Press, 2003, p. 233. is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students.
Precision questioning, an intellectual toolkit for critical thinking and for problem solving, grew out of a collaboration between Dennis Matthies and Dr. Monica Worline, while both taught/studied at Stanford University.