Bloom's taxonomy of teaching learning instructions according to various domains of development. This is helpful for people who want to go for teaching profession.

1. Bloom’s Taxonomy
Jemima Sultana
Department of Education
Aligarh Muslim University

2. Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913 –
September 13, 1999) was an American
educational psychologist who made contributions
to the classification of educational objectives and
to the theory of mastery learning.
Notable ideas:
Bloom’s taxonomy
Bloom’s 2 sigma problem
Mastery learning

3. Bloom’s Taxonomy
► Bloom’s taxonomy was created in 1948 by psychologist
Benjamin Bloom and several colleagues.
► It was originally developed in 1956 as a method of
classifying educational goals for student performance
evaluation.
► Bloom’s taxonomy has been revised in 1990 then in
2001 and it still utilised in education today.

4. Bloom’s Taxonomy
► The original intent in creating the taxonomy was to focus on
three major domains of learning cognitive, affective and
psychomotor.
► Despite the creators intent to address all three domains
bloom’s taxonomy applies only to acquiring knowledge in the
cognitive domain which involves intellectual skill development
► Original bloom’s taxonomy content six developmental
categories knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis,
synthesis and evaluation

5. 3 Domains

6. 3-H
Head(cognitive). Heart(affective). Hand(psychomotor)

7. 1. CognitiveDomain of Bloom’s Taxonomy

8. Revised Bloom Taxonomy (2001)
► In the new taxonomy, two dimensions
are presented: the knowledge dimension
and the cognitive dimension.
► There are four levels on the knowledge
dimension: factual, conceptual,
procedural, and metacognitive.
► There are six levels on the cognitive
process dimension: remembering,
understanding, applying, analyzing,
evaluating, and creating.

10. ► Knowledge or Remembering: Th ability to recall data and/or
information.
► Comprehension or Understanding: It is defined as the ability to grasp
the meaning of material.
► Application or Applying: It is referred to the ability to use learned
material in new and concrete situations.
► Analysis or Analysing: At this point, they begin understanding the
underlying structure to knowledge and also are able to distinguish
between fact and opinion.
► Evaluation or Evaluating: The evaluation level is where students
make judgements about the value of ideas,items, materials and
more.
► Synthesis or Creating: Ability to combine different components or
elements to form a whole.

11. Action Verbs of Bloom Taxonomy

15. Educational Implications
► It is used across grade levels and content areas
► Using bloom’s taxonomy in the classroom, teachers can assess
students on multiple learning outcomes that are aligned to local,
state and national standards and objectives.
► Within each level of the taxonomy, there are various tasks that
moves students through the thought process.
► For teachers Bloom’s taxonomy helps to develop lesson plans.
► List of action verbs of Bloom taxonomy helps to write learning
design in the language that focuses in each level.

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