1. Bloom’s Taxonomy Contributions to Wikispaces are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 License.Wikispaces Exploring Student Learning Outcomes

2. Recommended Readings 1. Anderson, L.W., Krathwohl, D.R., eds. (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: a revision of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives; abridged edition. NY: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. 2. http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Revised+Bloom's+Tax onomy http://ances.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/Revised+Bloom's+Tax onomy

3. 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.

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

5. Cognitive Domain Knowledge Comprehension Application Analysis Synthesis Evaluation

6. Affective Domain Receiving Responding Valuing Organizing Characterizing

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

8. HLWIKI International. (2013). Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Retrieved and revised from HLWIKI InternationalHLWIKI International Figure 1. Diagrammatic Representation of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Recently Revised

9. 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 Bloom’s Taxonomy.