Sunday, 1 June 2014

Bloom's Taxonomy

According to Wikipedia, Bloom's taxonomy is a way of distinguishing questions within education. It is named for Benjamin Bloom, who chaired the committee of educators that devised the taxonomy, and who also edited the first volume of the standard text,Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. Read more at : Bloom's taxonomy

Bloom's wheel, according to the Bloom's verbs and matching assessment types. The verbs are intended to be feasible and measurable.

Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating, rather than just remembering facts (rote learning). - Read more at: Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains

"Taxonomy” simply means “classification”, so the well-known taxonomy of learning objectives is an attempt (within the behavioural paradigm) to classify forms and levels of learning. It identifies three “domains” of learning (see below), each of which is organised as a series of levels or pre-requisites. It is suggested that one cannot effectively — or ought not try to — address higher levels until those below them have been covered (it is thus effectively serial in structure). As well as providing a basic sequential model for dealing with topics in the curriculum, it also suggests a way of categorising levels of learning, in terms of the expected ceiling for a given programme. Thus in the Cognitive domain, training for technicians may cover knowledge, comprehension and application, but not concern itself with analysis and above, whereas full professional training may be expected to include this and synthesis and evaluation as well. 
Read more: Bloom's taxonomy

References :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom's_taxonomy
http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/bloomtax.htm

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