Bloom’s Taxonomy
Exploring Student Learning Outcomes
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Recommended Readings
1.
Anderson, L.W., Krathwohl, D.R., eds. (2001). A
taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision
of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives; abridged
edition. NY: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
2.
http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Revised+Bloom's+Tax
onomy
Introduction to Blooms’ Taxonomy
 A well-known model for thinking about student learning
outcomes.
 Originally developed by Benjamin Bloom in the 1950’s.
 Developed with a committee of educators whose goal was to
create a classification system for learning objectives.
 Bloom’s is widely adapted for a variety of learning
environments.
Levels of Taxonomy
Cognitive domain
2. Affective domain
3. Psychomotor domain
1.
Cognitive Domain
 Knowledge
 Comprehension
 Application
 Analysis
 Synthesis
 Evaluation
Affective Domain
 Receiving
 Responding
 Valuing
 Organizing
 Characterizing
Psychomotor Domain
 Perception
 Set
 Guided Response
 Mechanism
 Complex overt response
 Adaptation
 Origination
Recently Revised
Figure 1. Diagrammatic Representation of Bloom’s Taxonomy of
Thinking
HLWIKI International. (2013). Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Retrieved and revised from HLWIKI International
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
The Green areas are the revisions while the Red areas are the original Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Cognitive Domain
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
Verbs – some examples… (The student will…):
Identify, define, memorize, tell, copy, recite, record, label,
match, and quote.
Summarize, paraphrase, relate, cite, convert, describe, explain,
interpret, classify, and indicate.
Experiment, sketch, construct, prepare, report, implement,
manipulate, complete, solve, and apply.
Compare, contrast, differentiate, prioritize, investigate,
deconstruct, discriminate, calculate, analyze, and correlate.
Criticize, judge, evidence, support, defend, predict, argue,
hypothesize, critique, and evaluate.
Generate, design, construct, plan, compose, create, write,
modify, compile, and produce.
Table 1. Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised