Bloom’s Taxonomy 101Assessment Day WorkshopApril 2009

Presenters:Dr. Kay Decker

& Kylene Rehder MSW, LCSW

Three Domains of Learning

Cognitive Affective

Psychomotor

Bloom's Taxonomy

Cognitive Learning Domain

Remembering or recognizing something previously encountered without necessarily understanding, using, or changing it.

Activities: Multiple choice questions, definitions, recalling a process.

Key Words: Define, describe, identify, label, recall, list, match, name.

Knowledge

Understanding the material being communicated without necessarily relating it to anything else.

Activity: Explain or interpret a meaning from a given scenario, create an example or metaphor.

Key Words: Explain, restate, critique, summarize, translate, interpret, distinguish, illustrate, compare.

Comprehension

Using general concepts to solve a particular problem.

Activity: Put a theory into practice, solve a problem, manage an activity.

Key Words: Apply, use, discover, solve, produce, implement, practice, respond, role-play, calculate.

Application

Breaking something down into parts.

Activity: Assess the situation, differentiate between the two models, make a correlation.

Key Words: Correlate, analyze, contrast, differentiate, distinguish, articulate, assess, chart, operationalize, predict, relate, infer, measure, test.

Analysis

Creating something new by combining different ideas.

Activity: Develop plans or procedures, design a solution, create a new approach, write a protocol.

Key Words: Adapt, anticipate, categorize, compile, combine, devise, design, generate, rearrange, reconstruct, modify.

Synthesis

Judging the value of materials or methods as they might be applied in a particular situation.

Activity: Assess sustainability, SWOT analysis, justify a strategic plan.

Key Words: Review, justify, assess, present a case for, defend, report on, investigate, appraise, support, criticize.

Evaluation

Instructional Methodologies

1. Given any art materials of your choice, you will create an oil painting using no more than four colors.

2. Given a number of objects that you have not previously seen, you will identify all those that are squares.

3. Given twenty new multiplication examples, you will solve 80% of them correctly,

4. Given eight poems written by European poets, you will determine the common theme.

5. From memory, list the nine planets in our solar system. 6. Given five journal articles, you will select the best

research design.

QUIZ TIME

Anderson, L. & Krathwohl, D. (2001). Taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives. New York: Longman.

Bloom, B. (1984). Taxonomy of educational objectives. Boston, MA: Pearson Education.

For copies of the PowerPoint please email Kylene Rehder at: kdrehder@nwosu.edu

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