Revised Bloom's Taxonomy, 2001

1. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy,
2001
Dr Shiva Shukla
Associate Professor, Guru Kashi University, Talwandi Sabo

2. What is Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Specific Learning Objectives and Assessment criterion
• Three domains of learning: cognitive, affective and psychomotor
• The cognitive domain is adapted for classroom use as a planning tool
• Organizes thinking at six hierarchical levels
• From the most basic level of thinking to the most complex level of
thinking
• The verb generally refers to actions associated with the intended
cognitive process
• The object generally describes the knowledge students are expected
to acquire or construct

3. Bloom’s Taxonomy: Old vis-à-vis New

5. Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
• Remember involves recalling information, listing, recognizing, describing, retrieving, naming,
finding etc.
• Understand refers to explaining ideas, interpreting, exemplify, summarizing, paraphrasing,
classifying, clarifying, predicting
• Apply refers to using the information in another similar situation, responding, providing,
implementing, using, executing, carrying out
• Analyze represents breaking information into parts to explore, compare, organize,
differentiate, interrogate, select, differentiate, integrate, deconstruct
• Evaluate engenders Justifying a decision or course of action, checking, hypothesizing,
critiquing, experimenting, judging, reflecting
• Create involves Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things designing,
constructing, planning, producing, assembling, inventing

7. Example Topic: Noun
• Remember: The students will be able to define the term noun.
• Understand: The students will be able to describe nouns and it’s
types
• Apply: The student will be able to use the appropriate noun in a
sentence.
• Analyze: The students will be able to classify the given nouns in their
categories.
• Evaluate: The students will be able to decide the correct sentence
from the given exercise.
• Create: The students will be able to plan a short story based on the
given nouns.

8. Example Topic: Our Parliament
• Remember: The students will be able to describe the functions of the
parliament.
• Understand: The students will be able to classify the upper and lower
houses of the Indian parliament.
• Apply: The students will be able to illustrate the working of the Lok Sabha
and Rajya Sabha.
• Analyze: The students will be able to differentiate between the working of
the Indian parliament with the other parliamentary systems of the world.
• Evaluate: The students will be able to choose the appropriate functions of
the Indian parliament vis-à-vis the given situations.
• Create: The students will be able to plan a mock parliament.

9. Examples to Avoid
• The students will be able to understand _______
• The students will get knowledge of ___________
• The students will know about ________________
• The students will be able to study _____________