This document discusses assessing cognitive learning in 6 levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. It describes behaviors measured at each level and provides examples of objective and essay test questions that could assess learning at each level. Objective tests include supply, selection, and matching questions. Essay tests are also appropriate to assess cognitive learning when outcomes cannot be fully measured by objective tests alone. Factors to consider when choosing a test type include the learning purpose, time available, and allowing students to demonstrate targeted competencies.

1. Cognitive Domain
ASSESMENT OF LEARNING

2. Behaviors Measured and
Assessed
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KNOWLEDGE LEVEL
COMPREHENSION
LEVEL
APPLICATION LEVEL
ANALYSIS LEVEL
SYNTHESIS
LEVEL
EVALUATION
LEVEL

3. 1. KNO- recognizing, remembering
facts, and other important data
on any topic or subject (wh-
questions)
2. COM- clarification and
articulation of the main idea of
what students are learning
3. APP- problem solving and
expression, apply learning to
other situations or cases in their

4. 4. ANA- think critically, looking
for motives, assumptions, cause
& effect relationships, similarities,
differences, hypotheses, and
conclusions
5. SYN- creative thinking,,
combining elements in new
ways, planning original
experiments, creating original

5. 6. EVA- necessitates
judging the value or worth
of a person, object, idea or
giving opinion on an issue

6. Preparing for Assessment of
Cognitive Learning
 What should be tested
 How to gather
information about what to
test
 How long the test
should be
 How best to prepare the

7. Assessing Cognitive Learning
Types of Objective Test
A. Supply Type
 Completion Drawing
e.g. In the following food web,
draw lines indicating which
organisms are consumers
and which are producers.

8.  Completion Statement Type
e.g. The capital of the
Philippines is
________________
 Correction Type
e.g. Change the underlined
word/phrase to make the
statement correct.
The theory of evolution was

9.  Identification Type-
E.g. To what does each of the
following refer? Write your
answer on the blank before the
number
_____1. The transmission of
parents’ characteristics to their
offspring
 Simple Recall Type

10.  Short Explanation
Type-
e.g. Explain in a complete
sentence why the
Philippines was not really
discovered by Magellan.

11. Selection Types of Objective
Test
1. Arrangement Type-
e.g. Arrange the following planets
according to their nearness to the
sun by using numbers 1,2,3,4,5
___Pluto
___Venus
___Jupiter
___Mars

12. 2. Matching Type
e.g. Match the country in Column A
with its capital city in Column
B.Write the letters only.
Column A
___1. Philippines
___2. Japan
___3. United
States
___4. Great
Britain
Column B
a. Washington
D.C.
b. Jeddah
c. Jerusalem
d. Manila
e. London
f. Tokyo

13. 3. Multiple Choice
Type
e.g. The study of
values is
a. axiology
b. logic

14. 4. Alternate Response Type
e.g. Write True if the statement is
correct; False if the statement is
incorrect.
____1. Lapulapu was the first Asian
to repulse European colonizers in
Asia.
____2. The early Filipinos were
uncivilized before the Spanish
conquest of the archipelago

15. 5. Interpretive Exercise-
This can assess higher
cognitive behaviors. Where
students have to analyze ,
interpret or apply the material
provided. Like a map, poem,
matrix, table, or excerpt of a
story

16. e.g. Examine the data on child labor
in Europe during the period
immediately after the industrial
revolution in the continent. Answer
the questions given below by
encircling the letter of your choice.YEAR NO. of CHILD
LABORERS
1750
1760
1770
1780
1790
1800
1820
1800
3000
5000
3400
1200
600
150

17. 1.The employment of
child labor was greatly
used in
A. 1750
B. 1760
C. 1770

18. ESSAY TEST
 Brief or Restricted Essay
Test
e.g. Why did the early Filipino
revolts fail? Cite and explain 2
reasons
 Extended Essay Test
e.g. Explain your position on
the issue of charter change in

19. Essay test is also appropriate
to use when learning
outcomes cannot be
adequately measured by
objective tests.
Nevertheless, all cognitive
behaviors can still be
measured with the use of an

20. Knowledge: Explain how
Siddharta Gautama became
Buddha?
Comprehension: What does it
mean when the person had
crossed the Rubicon?
Application: Cite three
instances showing the
application of the Law of Supply

21. Analysis: Analyze the annual
budget of your college as to
categories of funds, sources of
funds, major expenditures, and
needs of your college.
Synthesis: Discuss the significance
of the People’s Power Revolution in
the restoration of democracy in the
Philippines.
Evaluation: Are you in favor of the

22. In choosing the type of test,
consider…
 your purpose
 amount of time to be spent
for the test
 and as a general rule, the
test should allow the students
to demonstrate targeted
learning competencies