Blooms Taxonomy

Can you see a possible solution to?

What was the main idea?
How is similar to ?
Can you defend you position about?
What are the pros and cons of?
Describe what happened after
Which factors would you change if?
Who spoke to?
Can you develop a proposal which
would?
Can you write in your own words?
Which events could not have happened?
Do you know of another instance where?
Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives
1950s developed by Benjamin
Bloom
Means of expressing qualitatively
different kinds of thinking
Been adapted for classroom use
as a planning tool
Blooms Taxonomy
Provides a way to organize
thinking skills into six levels to the
more basic to the more complex
levels of thinking
1990s- Lorin Anderson revisited the
taxonomy
Blooms Taxonomy
Evaluation
Synthesis
Analysis
Application
Comprehension
Knowledge
Creating
Evaluating
Analysing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Remembering

Recall information
Recognizing, listing, describing,
retrieving, naming and finding
Understanding

Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarizing,
paraphrasing, classifying and
explaining
Applying

Using information in another
familiar or new situation
Implementing, carrying out, using
and executing
Analyzing

Breaking information into parts to
explore understandings and
relationships
Comparing, organizing,
deconstructing, interrogating and
finding
Evaluating

Justifying a decision or course of
action
Checking, hypothesising,
criquing, experimenting, judging
Creating

Generating new ideas, products
or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing,
planning, producing and
inventing.
Questions for Remembering
Can you name?
Describe what happened after
Who spoke to?
Questions for Understanding
Can you write in your own words?
What was the main idea?
Can you clarify?
Questions for Applying
Do you know of another instance
where?
Which factors would you change
if?
What questions would you ask
of?
Questions for Analyzing
Which events could not have
happened?
How is similar to ?
What do you see as other
possible outcomes?
Questions for Evaluating
Is there a better solution to ?
Can you defend you position
about?
What are the pros and cons of?
Questions for Creating
Can you design a?
Can you see a possible solution
to?
Can you develop a proposal
which would?