Benjamin Bloom

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Benjamin Bloom

• By Jennifer Stemle
• and Jenny Achs

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Life Achievements

• Lived from 1913-1999
• Educational Psychologist
• Focused research on students
• cognitive learning domain
• Made many contributions to today's theories
  behind education

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Major Findings

• Classified Learning into 3 domains
• Cognitive
• Effective
• Psychomotor
• Mastery learning
• Model for learning in which students gain
  information and knowledge to master content.
• Bloom found that 95 of students are only
  required to use the lowest level

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Can recall info
• Can explain and predict
• Can solve problems and
• use info
• Can see patterns, organize and recognize hidden
  meanings
• Can use previous ideas to create new and relate
  ideas
• Can compare and discriminate between ideas, judge
  and value ideas

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Bloom and Constructivism

• Developed a means for classifying goals
• Helped give teachers learning objectives
• Theories are now used by many teachers in their
  classrooms.

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• Cashman S. (2004). Integrating Technology in the
  Classroom. Third Edition. United States.
  Thomas Learning Inc.
• Bloom, B.S. (Ed.) (1956) Taxonomy of educational
  objectives The classification of educational
  goals. Handbook I, cognitive domain. New York
  Toronto Longmans, Green. http//instcomp.spjc.ed
  u/checklist/blooms.htm