© SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM All rights reserved. Introduction to Bloom’s Taxonomy Coaching for Design

© SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM All rights reserved.

Introduction to Bloom’s TaxonomyCoaching for Design

© SCHLECHTY CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN SCHOOL REFORM

© All rights reserved.

Level’s of Student Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy Why a revision?

1. A need to refocus educator’s attention on the value of the original handbook, not as a historical document but also that was one that was “ahead of its time”

2. A need to incorporate new knowledge and thought into the framework



Level’s of Student Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy First Published in 1956; one of top educational

publications which has influenced curriculum worldwide. The original taxonomy was one dimensional. Labeled the taxonomy with nouns: Knowledge,

Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation

Revised Taxonomy in 2001 Created a 2-dimensioinal framework

1. Cognitive taxonomy labeled with verbs: Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create

2. The Knowledge Dimension: Factual Knowledge, Conceptual Knowledge, Procedural knowledge, and the Meta-Cognitive Knowledge.



Level’s of Student Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives;

The Classification of Educational Goals, Handbook; 1956 (B.S. Bloom (editor), M.D. Engelhart, E.J. Furst, W.H. Hill, & D.R. Krathwohl)

A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing; A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives; 2001 (L.W. Anderson, D.R Krathwohl (editors), P.W. Airasian, K.A Cruikshank, R.E Mayer, P.R. Pintrich, J. Raths, M.C. Wittrock)



Engaged Students

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Remember



Strategically Compliant Students

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Recall and sometimes remember



Ritually Compliant Students

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Recall short term



Retreatists and Rebels

Learn little

Develop negative attitudes toward learning



RememberRetrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory

Key Verbs: count, define, draw, fill in the blank, identify, indicate, label, list, locate, match, memorize, name, point, quote, read, recall, recite, recognize, record, repeat, spell, state, tabulate, tell, trace, who, what, when, write, where, underline



UnderstandConstruct meaning from messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication

Key Verbs: classify, compute, convert, define, describe, differentiate, discuss, distinguish, estimate, explain, extrapolate, illustrate, interpret, paraphrase, predict, put in order, recognize, rephrase, restate, retell in your own rewrite, summarize, retell, trace, translate



ApplyCarry out or use a procedure in a given situation.

Key Verbs: apply, calculate, classify, compute, conclude, construct, demonstrate, determine, develop, draw, employ, examine, experiment with, find out, give an example, illustrate, make, operate, organize, practice, relate, restructure, show, solve, state a rule or principle,



AnalyzeBreak material into it’s parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose

Key Verbs: categorize, classify, compare, contrast, debate, deduct, detect, determine the factors, diagnose, diagram, differentiate, dissect, distinguish, examine, group, infer, order, relate, separate, specify, summarize, transform



EvaluateMake judgments based on criteria and standards

Key Verbs: change, combine, compose, construct, debate, defend, disprove, design, find an unusual way, formulate, generate, integrate, invent, modify, originate, plan, predict, pretend, prescribe, produce, propose, rank, rearrange, reconstruct, reorganize, revise, suggest, suppose, visualize, write



Create Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganize into a NEW pattern or structure

Key Verbs: adapt, build, change, compile, compose, construct, create, elaborate, image, invent, hypothesize, originate, transform.

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