Sample of Blooms Taxonomy of Education

Jeric A. de Vera

Bsed-III

“Bloom’s Taxonomy”

OVERVIEW

* Bloom’s Taxonomy and higher-order thinking

* Take a walk down memory lane

* Investigate the Revised Taxonomy

* New terms

* New emphasis

* Explore each of the six levels

* See how questioning plays an important role within the framework (oral language)

* Use the taxonomy to plan a unit

* Look at an integrated approach

* Begin planning a unit with a SMART Blooms Planning Matrix.

Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives

* Means of expressing qualitatively different kinds of thinking.

* 1950s- Developed by Benjamin Bloom.

* Adapted for classroom use as a planning tool.

* Continues to be one of the most universally applied models.

* Provides a way to organize thinking skills into six levels, from the most basic to the higher order levels of thinking.

* 1990s- Lorin Anderson (former student of Bloom) revisited the taxonomy.

* As a result, a number of changes were made.

Original Terms New Terms

Evaluation

Synthesis

Analysis

Application

Comprehension

Knowledge

Creating

Evaluating

Analysing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

(Based on Pohl, 2000, Learning to Think, Thinking to Learn, p. 8)

Creating- Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things. The learner creates new ideas and information using what has been previously learned. EX: Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

Evaluating- Justifying a decision or course of action. The learner makes decisions based on in-depth reflection, criticism and assessment. EX: Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, and judging.

Analysing- Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships. The learner breaks learned information into its parts to best understand that information. EX: Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding.

Applying- Using information in another familiar situation....