Bloom's Taxonomy 1

Bloom's TaxonomyBloom's Taxonomy *

Benjamin Bloom created thistaxonomy for categorizing levels ofabstraction - thus providing a usefulstructure in which to describe LessonPlan Components: Interest Approach,Discussion, Presentation,Demonstration, and Test Items.Content Goals start with an activeverb. Note the 'Cues' below, whichsuggest active verbs that may be usedwhen creating Lesson PlanComponents. See the Example LessonPlan.

Knowledge

observation and recall ofinformationknowledge of dates, events,placesknowledge of major ideasmastery of subject matterCues: list, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label, collect, examine, tabulate, quote, name, who, when,where, etc.

Comprehension

understanding informationgrasp meaningtranslate knowledge into new contextinterpret facts, compare, contrastorder, group, infer causespredict consequencesQuestion Cues: summarize, describe, interpret, contrast, predict, associate, distinguish, estimate, differentiate,discuss, extend

Application

use informationuse methods, concepts, theories in new situationssolve problems using required skills or knowledgeCues: apply, demonstrate, calculate, complete, illustrate, show, solve, examine, modify, relate, change,classify, experiment, discover

Analysis

seeing patterns

Bloom's Taxonomy 2

organization of partsrecognition of hidden meaningsidentification of componentsCues: analyze, separate, order, explain, connect, classify, arrange, divide, compare, select, explain, infer

Synthesis

use old ideas to create new onesgeneralize from given factsrelate knowledge from several areaspredict, draw conclusionsCues: combine, integrate, modify, rearrange, substitute, plan, create, design, invent, what if?, compose,formulate, prepare, generalize, rewrite

Evaluation

compare and discriminate between ideasassess value of theories, presentationsmake choices based on reasoned argumentverify value of evidencerecognize subjectivityCues: assess, decide, rank, grade, test, measure, recommend, convince, select, judge, explain, discriminate,support, conclude, compare, summarize

*Adapted from: Bloom, B.S. (Ed.) (1956) Taxonomy of educational objectives: The classification of educationalgoals: Handbook I, cognitive domain. New York ; Toronto: Longmans, Green.Note: IPSI uses Bloom's work as modified by Simpson and Kratwold to create three domains: cognitive,psychomotor, and afective. The first, second and fourth levels of Bloom form the cognitive domeain. The third levelof Bloom forms the psychomotor domain and the fifth and sixth levels of Bloom form the affective domain.Accordingly, content will be parsed into one of nine categories --- three levels of cognitive, three of psychomotorand three of affective. These nine categories are sufficiently precise so that prescriptions regarding instruction andtesting can be aligned with the intent expressed in content goals.

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