Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy

1. Cognitive domain

   • Creating
     • Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements to create a new meaning or structure.
   • Evaluating
     • Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.
   • Analyzing
     • Separates concepts distinguishing between facts and inferences.
   • Applying
     • Use a concept in a new situation.
   • Understanding
     • State a problem in one's own words.
   • Remembering
     • Retrieve previous learned information.

2. Affective domain

   • Receiving
     • The student passively pays attention
   • Responding
     • The student actively participates
   • Valuing
     • The student associates some values to the knowledge they acquired
   • Organizing
     • The student can put together different values, information, and ideas and accommodate them within his/her own schema; comparing, relating and elaborating on what has been learned.
   • Characterizing
     • The student holds a particular value or belief that now exerts influence on his/her behavior so that it becomes a characteristic.

3. Psychomotor domain

   • Perception
     • The ability to use sensory cues to guide motor activity.
   • Set
     • Readiness to act. It includes mental, physical, and emotional sets.
   • Guided response
     • The early stages in learning a complex skill that includes imitation and trial and error.
   • Mechanism
     • Learned responses have become habitual and the movements can be performed with some confidence and proficiency.
   • Complex overt response
     • Proficiency is indicated by a quick, accurate, and highly coordinated performance, requiring a minimum of energy.
   • Adaptation
     • Skills are well developed and the individual can modify movement patterns to fit special requirements.
   • Origination
     • Creating new movement patterns to fit a particular situation or specific problem.