BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

1. Cognitive domain

   • knowledge
   • Analysis

2. Affective domain

   • Attending
   • Beliefs

3. Psychomotor domain

   • imitation
   • Manipulation

4. Is a system that classifies cognitive behaviors into six categories, ranging from fairly simple to more complex.

   • Knowledge
     • Recalling specific facts or bits of information
   • Comprehension
     • interpretation
       • ability to identify and comprehend the major ideas in a communication and to understand the relationship between them.
     • Translation
       • involves changing ideas from one form of communication into a parallel form while retaining their meaning.
     • Examples
       • One of the best ways a person can demonstrate comprehension of an idea is to give an example of it
     • Definitions
       • Providing a defi nition requires students to describe a term or concept in their own words
   • Application
     • This category involves using information to arrive at a solution to a problem or situation.
   • Analysis
     • The emphasis in analysis-level operations is on explaining how the various parts of a complex process or object are arranged or work together to achieve a certain effect.
     • Identifying issues
     • Identifying implications
   • Synthesis
     • is the process of combining parts in such a way as to constitute a pattern or structure that did not exist before.
     • -Unique or original communication -Plans for operations - Creating abstractions
   • Evaluation
     • To function at the evaluation level, the student must (1) set up appropriate standards or values by which to make a judgment and (2) determine how closely the idea or object meets the standards or values.