1. Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education created by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating concepts, rather than just remembering facts.
2. It classifies educational learning objectives into six levels, from lower order to higher order thinking skills - remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
3. The levels progress from basic recall or recognition of facts, concepts and procedures, to more complex and abstract mental levels, including skills, behaviors, and attitudes. Each level is more complex than the previous one.
2. Who is Benjamin Bloom?
•American Educational Psychologist
•Created Bloom’s Taxonomy in 1956 to promote Higher Order Thinking in
education
•Contributed towards research in Mastery Learning
•Pupils are taught at their level of proficiency
•Pupils are assessed
•Pupils given more opportunities to ‘master’ the learning or given more challenging
tasks
•Focus on process not content
3. What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
•Taxonomy: Classification
•Bloom’s classifies ways of thinking from lower order to more difficult, higher order
skills
•These terms were updated in the 1990s
6. Creating
Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.
Evaluating
Justifying a decision or course of action
Checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging
Analysing
Breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
Comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding
Applying
Using information in another familiar situation
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing
Understanding
Explaining ideas or concepts
Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining
Remembering
Recalling information
Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding
7. Remembering
The learner is able to recall, restate and remember learned information.
◦ Recognising
◦ Listing
◦ Describing
◦ Identifying
◦ Retrieving
◦ Naming
◦ Locating
◦ Finding
Can you recall information?
10. Understanding
The learner grasps the meaning of information by interpreting and translating
what has been learned.
◦ Interpreting
◦ Exemplifying
◦ Summarising
◦ Inferring
◦ Paraphrasing
◦ Classifying
◦ Comparing
◦ Explaining
Can you explain ideas or concepts?
13. Applying
The learner makes use of information in a context different from the one in
which it was learned.
◦Implementing
◦Carrying out
◦Using
◦Executing
Can you use the information in another
familiar situation?
16. Analyzing
The learner breaks learned information into its parts to best understand that
information.
◦ Comparing
◦ Organising
◦ Deconstructing
◦ Attributing
◦ Outlining
◦ Finding
◦ Structuring
◦ Integrating
Can you break information into parts to explore understandings and relationships?
19. Evaluating
The learner makes decisions based on in-depth reflection, criticism and assessment.
◦ Checking
◦ Hypothesising
◦ Critiquing
◦ Experimenting
◦ Judging
◦ Testing
◦ Detecting
◦ Monitoring
Can you justify a decision or course of action?
22. Creating
The learner creates new ideas and information using what has been previously learned.
◦ Designing
◦ Constructing
◦ Planning
◦ Producing
◦ Inventing
◦ Devising
◦ Making
Can you generate new products, ideas, or ways of viewing things?