Blooms Taxonomy

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Blooms Taxonomy
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What is Blooms Taxonomy?

• A popular instructional model developed by
  Benjamin Bloom
• Bloom found that over 95 of the test questions
  students encounter require them to think only at
  the lowest possible level...the recall of
  information.
• He identified 6 levels within the cognitive
  domain . . .

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• Blooms categorizes thinking skills from the
  concrete to the abstractknowledge,
  comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
  evaluation. The last three are considered
  HIGHER-ORDER skills.

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Knowledge

• Questions/
• Statement
• Verbs
• Arrange
• Recall
• Check
• Identify
• Label
• List
• Tell
• Recall
• Show

• Description
• Remembering or recalling appropriate, previously
  learned information to draw out factual (usually
  right or wrong) answers
• Lowest level of comprehension

• Learning Tasks
• Question/answer session
• Finding definitions
• Quizzes
• Workbooks or worksheets
• Memory games

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Comprehension

• Questions/
• Statement
• Verbs
• Explain
• Predict
• Outline
• Change
• Interpret
• demonstrate

• Description
• Explaining and interpreting
• Ability to grasp and interpret the material
• Summarizing material

• Learning Tasks
• Debate
• Peer teaching
• Small group projects
• Show and tell
• paraphrasing

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Application

• Questions/
• Statement
• Verbs
• Apply
• Construct
• Collect
• Manipulate
• Organize
• Dramatize
• Prepare

• Description
• Using a concept in a new situation

• Learning Tasks
• Role playing/role reversal
• Interviewing
• Group presentation
• Producing a newspaper, story, etc.

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Analysis

• Questions/
• Statement
• Verbs
• Diagram
• compare
• Contrast
• Separate
• Investigate
• Search
• Deduce
• Scrutinize

• Description
• Breaking down material into component parts

• Learning Tasks
• Uncovering unique characteristics
• Outlining material
• Distinguish between fact and inference
• Problem identification

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Synthesis

• Questions/
• Statement
• Verbs
• Create
• Construct
• Generate
• Produce
• Reorganize
• Design

• Description
• Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis
  on creating a new meaning or structure.

• Learning Tasks
• Writing a creative story, poem, or song
• Finding new combinations
• Writing a well organized theme
• hypothesizing

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Evaluation

• Questions/
• Statement
• Verbs
• Assess
• Classify
• Describe
• Determine
• Evaluate
• Judge
• Justify
• support

• Description
• Make judgments about the value of ideas or
  materials.
• Highest learning outcome

• Learning Tasks
• Judging the value of work using internal criteria
• Evaluating peer projects or presentations
• Evaluating ones own ideas and products
• Conducting a survey