Writing Objectives II: Bloom

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• Writing Objectives IIBlooms Taxonomy
• EDU 300 Newberry College Jennifer Morrison

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Writing Objectives II

• How does Blooms Taxonomy work?
• Why is higher order thinking so important?

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What is Blooms Taxonomy?

• In 1956, Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues
  published the Taxonomy of Educational
  Objectives The Classification of Educational
  Goals, a book that classified educational goals
  according to the cognitive processes that
  learners must use in order to attain those goals.
  
• It was revised in 2001 by Lorin Anderson and
  David Krathwohl.
• SC Academic Standards are based on Blooms.
• Research has shown that greater learning happens
  when students learn and are assessed at higher
  levels of learning.

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Domains of Knowledge Factual, Conceptual,
  Procedural, Metacognitive
• Cognitive Processes
• Remember
• Understand
• Apply
• Analyze
• Evaluate
• Create

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Read

• Revised Blooms Taxonomy (Appendix A from SC
  Academic Standards)
• Richard Mayer Rote Versus Meaningful Learning

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Rote Versus Meaningful LearningRichard Mayer

1. What are the two overall educational goals of the
   revised Taxonomy?
2. What is the difference between no learning,
   rote learning, and meaningful learning?
3. Mayer says there are two components of problem
   solving. What are they?
4. How does the revised Taxonomy view learning?
5. What is the lowest level? Why is it important?
   Whats the danger?
6. Create a graphic organizer showing the six levels
   of the revised Taxonomy and how those levels
   relate to and build on each other.

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Look at the SC Academic Standards for your unit

• At what level of the revised Taxonomy are they
  written?
• Is this appropriate? Why or why not?
• What does this mean for you as a curriculum
  designer?

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Label your proposed unit objectives

• A Remember
• B Understand
• C Apply
• D Analyze
• E Evaluate
• F Create

• What percentage do you have of each cognitive
  level?
• Is this appropriate? Why or why not?
• As a designer, whats a good Blooms mix for a
  set of unit objectives?

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Whats Due?