ASSESSMENT WITHOUT LEVELS

Or:

BLOOMING REWritten and presented by Dr Barbara Wintersgill for the LTLRE annual conference 2015

Taxonomy of the Cognitive DomainRemembering Recognizing or recalling knowledge from memory.

Remembering is when memory is used to produce definitions, facts, or lists, or recite or retrieve material.

Understanding Constructing meaning from different types of information. Achieved through activities like explaining, comparing, classifying, summarising, interpreting, giving examples.     

Applying Either applying what you have learnt to a situation or applying a process e.g. inquiry.

Analysing Breaking material or concepts into parts, explaining how the parts relate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. Pupils output will often include charts, or diagrams, or graphic representations (e.g. mind maps).

Evaluating Making judgments based on criteria.  

Creating Putting learning together in a new way

Creating

Evaluating

Analysing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

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Cognitive process - understandingVERBS RELATING TO

'UNDERSTANDING'Explain Illustrate Interpret Represent CompareGive an exampleParaphraseSummarise

SAMPLE QUESTION STEMS

Can you write in your own words...?Who do you think...?What was the main idea...?Can you distinguish between...?What differences exist between...?Can you provide an example of what you mean...?

ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL’S

TAXONOMY (BRT) 2001

CONTENT/KNOWLEDGE

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

 1. Remembering:

 2. Understanding: 

 3. Applying: 

 4. Analyzing:

 5. Evaluating:    

 6. Creating: 

ANDERSON’S PLANNING MATRIX

ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL’S TAXONOMY

(BRT) 2001

What is a Christian? (i) A follower of Jesus.How did Jesus teach his followers to behave?Examples of Jesus' teaching that Christians try to copy e.g. The foundations of Christian morality -The two greatest

commandments The parable of the Good Samaritan (children's version) 'Love your

neighbour' The parable of the prodigal son. 'Forgive; however much someone

has hurt you'.

 Remembering: Pupils can recall the two great commandments Pupils can retell the main points of each story

Understanding: 

Pupils can summarise parables in their own words pupils can explain the point of each parable i.e what is its

message/meaning Pupils can explain what 'love' means in this context Pupils can distinguish between examples of 'loving God' and of

'loving your neighbour

Applying:  pupils can explain how Christians today might try to apply the message of each parable to their own lives.

Analyzing:

Evaluating:     Pupils decide how difficult it would be to live by these principles

Creating:  Pupils can create their own parable for today on the theme of one of Jesus' parables.

MASTERY LEARNING the main difference between children is the speed at

which they learn rather than ability the essential purpose of assessment is to check that

pupils have grasped what they have been taught NOT to compare children against each other i.e. formative assessment

nearly all children can achieve 'mastery' of a subject n.b. 'mastery' is not the highest standard that can be reached but the standard that can be reached by most pupils.

don't move on to new work until all pupils have 'mastered' or reached the expected standard on the present one.

Pupils who complete the work to ‘mastery’ are given work at greater depth

Standards and Testing Agency[1] on testing at KS1

• Most pupils will be working at the expected standard.

• Other pupils are said to be 'working towards the expected standard' and

• 'working at greater depth within the expected standard'.

ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL’S TAXONOMY

(BRT) 2001

What is a Christian? (i) A follower of Jesus.How did Jesus teach his followers to behave?Examples of Jesus' teaching that Christians try to copy e.g. The foundations of Christian morality -The two greatest

commandments The parable of the Good Samaritan (children's version) 'Love your

neighbour' The parable of the prodigal son. 'Forgive; however much someone

has hurt you'.

 Remembering: Pupils can recall the two great commandments Pupils can retell the main points of each story

Understanding: 

Pupils can summarise parables in their own words pupils can explain the point of each parable i.e what is its

message/meaning Pupils can explain what 'love' means in this context Pupils can distinguish between examples of 'loving God' and of

'loving your neighbour

Applying:  pupils can explain how Christians today might try to apply the message of each parable to their own lives.

Analyzing:

Evaluating:     Pupils decide how difficult it would be to live by these principles

Creating:  Pupils can create their own parable for today on the theme of one of Jesus' parables.

ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL’S TAXONOMY

(BRT) 2001

What is a Christian? (i) A follower of Jesus.How did Jesus teach his followers to behave?Examples of Jesus' teaching that Christians try to copy e.g. The foundations of Christian morality -The two greatest

commandments The parable of the Good Samaritan (children's version) 'Love your

neighbour' The parable of the prodigal son. 'Forgive; however much someone

has hurt you'.

 Remembering: Pupils can recall the two great commandments Pupils can retell the main points of each story

Understanding: 

Pupils can summarise parables in their own words pupils can explain the point of each parable i.e what is its

message/meaning Pupils can explain what 'love' means in this context Pupils can distinguish between examples of 'loving God' and of

'loving your neighbour

Applying:  pupils can explain how Christians today might try to apply the message of each parable to their own lives.

Analyzing:

Evaluating:     Pupils decide how difficult it would be to live by these principles

Creating:  Pupils can create their own parable for today on the theme of one of Jesus' parables.

ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL’S TAXONOMY (BRT) 2001

CONTENT/KNOWLEDGEThe importance of the following to the theory and practice of assessment:Bloom's revised taxonomyBloom's theory of mastery learningAnderson's planning matrix

COGNITIVE PROCESSES

 1. Remembering: Teachers know:The sequence of 6 cognitive processes in Bloom's revised taxonomyBloom's theory of mastery learningAnderson's planning matrix

 2. Understanding: Teachers can give examples of tasks in relation to illustrate the six cognitive processes.Using the example given (Jeus' teaching), teachers can identify the expected standard for a year group they teach.Teachers can explain what changes they would have to make to their present planning and assessment in order to apply mastery theory.

3. Applying:  Teachers can use Anderson's planning matrix to planning their next topicTeachers can use the theory of mastery learning to their next topic.

 4. Analyzing:

 5. Evaluating:     Teachers can evaluate the effectiveness of these three theories

 6. Creating:  Teachers can create a planning and assessment scheme for their class, putting all of these principles into practice.

I'm going to finish by applying Anderson's planning matrix to another topic, which I hope will make the process clear.

You can't do all of this now. As I said at the beginning, the strength of this project lies in the involvement of you, the teachers. We will continue to produce examples of planning and assessment like the one on Jesus' teaching. But only you can try these out in the classroom and tell us what works and where we need to go back to the drawing board. We need you to do the evaluating task and send us the results.