Evaluation Synthesis Analysis Application Comprehension

Pedagogy
Training yourself: An introduction to good teaching practice
Bloom’s taxonomy of the cognitive domain
Increasing complexity
Evaluation
Synthesis
Higher order
thinking
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Lower order
thinking
Knowledge
Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives: Handbook 1, The Cognitive Domain' (Bloom, Engelhart, Furst, Hill, Krathwohl) 1956
Since the first publication of Blooms Taxonomy in 1956, there have been several new version produced. However, the above
taxonomy is still widely referred to. (Other models include: Anderson, L. W. and David R. Krathwohl, D. R., et al (Eds..) (2001) A
Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Allyn & Bacon.
Boston, MA (Pearson Education Group)