Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels of Learning
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 2 KNOWLEDGE Things memorized without necessarily having a full understanding. Identifying names, places, dates, definitions
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 3 COMPREHENSION You understand information enough to explain it in your own words. Explaining, summarizing, describing,
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 4 APPLICATION You find some practical use for the information and use it to solve other problems. Using the information, solving problems, examining, modifying, relating, changing
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 5 ANALYSIS You break complex ideas into parts and see how the parts work together Seeing patterns, organizing parts, connecting, comparing,inferring
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 6 SYNTHESIS You make connections with things you already know. drawing conclusions, making predictions,designing, inventing, generalizing
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 7 EVALUATION You judge something's worth assessing, ranking, grading, testing recommending, explaining, supporting,convincing
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 8 Exercise on page 43 of Practicing College Learning Styles, 4th Edition Hopper/Houghton Mifflin 2007 What level of Bloom’s Taxonomy would the following activities require?
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 9 Changing a flat tire Application
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 10 Finding the main idea of a paragraph Comprehension
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 11 Explaining a class lecture to a friend who was absent. Comprehension
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 12 Summarizing an Article Comprehension
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 13 Finding the lowest common denominator for fractions Analysis
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 14 Finding the correct answer to a multiple choice question Knowledge A. B. C. D.
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 15 Creating a webpage Synthesis
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 16 Appraising the damage to your wrecked car Evaluation
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 17 Listing the states and capitals Knowledge
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 18 Making an apple pie Synthesis(Application)
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 19 Comparison shopping for the best buy Evaluation
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 20 Writing an essay for English class Synthesis
Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.2 | 21 Computing your GPA Application