5. retrieve relevant knowledge
fromlong termmemory
• Recognizing
• Recalling
Can you recall the name of a
particularobject?
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6. Construct meaning from instructional
messages, including oral, written and graphic
communication.
• Exemplifying
• Interpreting
• Classifying
• Summarizing
• Inferring
• Comparing
• Explaining
6
Can you represent verbal information visually (interpreting)?
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7. Carry out oruse a procedure in a
given situation.
• Executing
• Implementing
7
Can you use information in
another situation?
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8. Breakmaterial into its constituent
parts and determine how the parts
relate to one anotherand to an overall
structure orpurpose.
• Differentiating
• Organizing
• Attributing
8
Can you break information into
parts to explore relationships?
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9. make judgments based on
criteria and standards
• Checking
• Critiquing
9
Can you make & justify a
decision or course of action?
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10. Put elements togetherto forma coherent
orfunctional whole; reorganize elements
into a new pattern orstructure
• Generating
• Planning
• Producing
10
Can you generate new products,
ideas, or ways of viewing things?
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HISTORY – The Original Bloom’s Taxonomy
Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives: Handbook I, The Cognitive Domain
1950s - developed by Benjamin Bloom and fellow university examiners (about 50 people)
The name “Bloom’s Taxonomy” came from the senior editor -- being Benjamin Bloom
Means of expressing qualitatively different kinds of intellectual skills and abilities
Was adapted for classroom use as a planning tool
Provides a way to organize thinking skills into six levels, from the most basic to the more complex levels of thinking
Was hypothesized to be a cumulative hierarchy; that is, each lower level was believed necessary to move to the next level
Changes were based on 50+ years of history of using original Taxonomy and research on learning conducted by cognitive psychologists
There are eight authors of the revised Taxonomy; the two editors were Lorin Anderson and David Krathwohl (who was one of the editors of the original Taxonomy)
The names of six major categories were changed from noun to verb forms.
The word knowledge was inappropriate to describe a category of thinking and was replaced with the word remember instead.
Comprehension and synthesis were retitled to understand and create respectively, in order to better reflect the nature of the thinking defined in each category.
Create was moved to the highest, that is, most complex, category
The revised Taxonomy is not a cumulative hierachy
