BLOOM’S REVISED TAXONOMY
Creating
Generating new ideas, products,
or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning,
producing, inventing.
Evaluating
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging
Analyzing
Breaking information into parts to explore
understandings and relationships
Comparing, organizing, deconstructing, interrogating
Applying
Using information in another familiar situation
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Understanding
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing,
classifying,explaining
Remembering
Recalling information
Recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving,
naming, finding
References:
Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl (Eds.). (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A
Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman.
Bloom, B., Englehart, M. Furst, E., Hill, W., & Krathwohl, D. (1956). Taxonomy of educational
objectives: The classification of educational goals. Handbook I: Cognitive domain. New York, Toronto:
Longmans, Green.
Poster retrieved 1/2/07 adapted from http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm