1. Exploring Student Learning Outcomes Bloom’s Taxonomy Contributions to http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License.

2. Introduction to Blooms’ Taxonomy A well-known model for thinking about student learning outcomes. Originally developed by Benjamin Bloom in the 1950’s. Developed with a committee of educators whose goal was to create a classification system for learning objectives. Bloom’s is widely adapted for a variety of learning environments.

3. Levels of Taxonomy 1. Cognitive domain 2. Affective domain 3. Psychomotor domain

4. Cognitive Domain Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation

5. Affective Domain Receiving Responding Valuing Organizing Characterizing

6. Psychomotor Domain Perception Set Guided Response Mechanism Complex overt response Adaptation Origination

7. Recently Revised HLWIKI International. (2013). Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Retrieved and revised from http://hlwiki.slais.ubc.cahttp://hlwiki.slais.ubc.ca Figure 1. Diagrammatic Representation of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking

8. Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Cognitive DomainVerbs – some examples… (The student will…): RememberingIdentify, define, memorize, tell, copy, recite, record, label, match, and quote. UnderstandingSummarize, paraphrase, relate, cite, convert, describe, explain, interpret, classify, and indicate. ApplyingExperiment, sketch, construct, prepare, report, implement, manipulate, complete, solve, and apply. AnalyzingCompare, contrast, differentiate, prioritize, investigate, deconstruct, discriminate, calculate, analyze, and correlate. EvaluatingCriticize, judge, evidence, support, defend, predict, argue, hypothesize, critique, and evaluate. CreatingGenerate, design, construct, plan, compose, create, write, modify, compile, and produce. Table 1. Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised The green areas are the revisions while the red areas are the original concepts of Bloom’s Taxonomy.