Kristine Cris B. Arevalo

BSED-3B

Assessment in the Affective Domain

1. Cognitive 2. Affective3. Psychomotor

*3 Domains:(Bloom’s Taxonomy, 1965)

Cognitive Domain- emphasizes intellectual learning and problem solving activities and is much concern with knowledge comprehension and analysis.

Affective Domain-involves behavior and educational objectives that have some emotional overtones that deals with attitudes, values, interests, beliefs and appreciation.

Psychomotor Domain- deals with motor and manipulative skills

“Some people are schooled

but not educated.”

1. Receiving- being aware of or sensitive to the existence of certain ideas, materials, or phenomena and being willing to tolerate them.

The taxonomy in the Affective Domain

(Krathwohl’s Taxonomy of Affective Domain, 1964)

2. Responding- committed in some small measure to the ideas, materials, or phenomena involved by actively responding to them.

3. Valuing- willing to be. perceived by others as attaching importance to certain ideas, materials, or phenomenon.

4. Organization- relating the value to those already held and bring it into a harmonious and internally consistent philosophy.

5. Characterization- act consistently in accordance with the values he or she has internalized.

Affective Learning CompetenciesInstructional Objective-specific, measurable, shirt-term, observable student’s behaviors.

Objectives are the foundation upon which you can build lessons and assessments that you can prove to meet your overall course or lesson goals.

Figure 1. Appropriate Behavioral Verbs for Affective Domain

Receiving Responding

Valuing Organization Characterization

• Accept• Attend• Develop• Recogniz

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• Complete• Comply• Cooperate• Discuss• Examine• Obey• Respond

• Accept• Defend• Devote• Pursue• Seek

• Codify• Discriminate• Display• Order• Organize• Systematize• weigh

• Internalize• Verify

References :

• Karthwohl, D., Bloom, B.,and Masia, B. (1965). Taxonomy of Educational objectives. Handbook II: Affective Domain. New York: David Mckay.

• Salandanan, Gloria G.(2009). Methods of Teaching. Lorimar Publishing Inc.

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