INTRIST Report

By: Peter Hans Z. Tejada Symond Troy S. Florendo

Benjamin S. Bloom, PhD

Born in Lansford, Pennsylvania American Educational Psychologist Famous for the theory of

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Bloom’s Educational Background

Pennsylvania State University Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree

University of ChicagoDoctorate Degree in Education

Bloom’s Research

He focused much of his research on the study of educational objectives and, ultimately, proposed that any given task favors one of three psychological domains:

Cognitive Affective Psychomotor

Cognitive Domain

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Process

Affective Domain

Psychomotor Domain

He designed the taxonomy in order to help teachers and instructional designers to classify instructional objectives and goals.

The taxonomy relies on the idea that not all learning objectives and outcomes have equal merit. In the absence of a classification system (a taxonomy), teachers and instructional designers may choose, for example, to emphasize memorization of facts (which makes for easier testing) rather than emphasizing other (and likely more important) learned capabilities.

Bloom’s taxonomy in theory helps teachers better prepare objectives and, from there, derive appropriate measures of learned capability and higher order thinking skills.

Six Levels of Learning

HIGHER ORDER THINKING SKILLS

H.O.T.S. IN LEARNING

“Any educational efforts may be said to be unsuccessful to the extent that student achievement is normally distributed.”

- Benjamin Bloom

Sources:

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html

http://inventors.about.com/library/lessons/bl_benjamin_bloom.htm

http://www.bookrags.com/Benjamin_Bloom

Briner, Martin. (1999). Benjamin Bloom. Retrieved November 15, 2006 from:                         www.dean.usma.edu/math/activities/cape/constructivism/501bloom.htm