“Bloom’s Taxonomy” is a popular educational model.
Before we discuss the purpose of Bloom’s Taxonomy, let us talk about the conventional educational system which was unlike the modern system. The traditional educational setup lacked a lot of things when it comes to providing the best teaching-learning provisions to students but, the goal of achieving–
“Bloom’s Taxonomy” is a popular educational model. Be it the time when students used to study in “Gurukuls” or the recent times using “edTech”, the purpose is to make students life-long learners & inculcate good values & skills in them. Bloom’s Taxonomy can be understood as one such attempt to revive the educational practices with the best teaching methodologies & the way of student performance evaluation.
“Best student learning outcomes + skill development” remains the same.
Let’s begin with understanding what is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
What Is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a categorization that defines different levels of intelligence including thinking, learning, and understanding. Institutes make use of bloom’s taxonomy to improve curriculum, assessments, and teaching methods.
Originally introduced in 1956, Bloom’s Taxonomy was a concept created by Mr. Benjamin Bloom along with Mr. Edward Furst, Mr. Max Englehart, Mr. David Krathwohl & Mr. Walter Hill. The concept or rather the educational model has categorized the levels of education as well as the skills that need to be imparted whenever a teacher teaches something.
Three Domains Of Bloom's Taxonomy
Three Domains of Bloom's Taxonomy
I) Cognitive Domain
In the cognitive domain of Bloom’s taxonomy, the major focus is given to the development of knowledge and intellectual skills. As per the complexity, there are six sub-heads of the cognitive domain.
1. Knowledge
Gaining knowledge about facts, figures, and basic concepts.
2. Comprehension
Understanding the facts gathered during the knowledge stage .
3. Application
Applying the knowledge and the concepts in the best way possible.
4. Analysis
Analyzing the application, making conclusions, and understanding relationships between the different aspects of the application.
5. Evaluation
Judging and defending conclusions about the information generated from the application.
6. Creation
Creating new results by planning, designing, developing the actual application.
2. ABOUT BLOOM’S TAXONOMY :-
• It was created in1956 by Dr. BENJAMIN
BLOOM.
• He was an educational psychologist.
• It is a system to classify learning objectives
into a series of domains.
• To encourage teachers to think holistically
about education.
3. DOMAINS OF LEARNING :-
1. Cognitive Domain :- Mental Skills, Thinking, Memory etc. which
are related to brain.
2. Affective Domain :- Feelings and emotions related to heart.
3. Psychomotor Domain:- Doing, Action related to hand.
Also called conative/ sensory Domain.
Trick to learn :- CAP
5. 1. COGNITIVE DOMAIN :-
GIVEN IN 1956
❑ EVALUATION
❑ SYNTHESIS
❑ ANALYSIS
❑ APPLICATION
❑ COMPREHENSION
❑ KNOWLEDGE
REVISED IN 2001
❑ CREATING
❑ EVALUATING
❑ ANALYSING
❑ APPLYING
❑ UNDERSTANDING
❑ REMEMBERING
Changed from NOUN to VERB form.
6.
7. I. Knowledge or Remembering :- The ability to recall data and
information.
II. Comprehension or Understanding :- The ability to grasp the meaning
of material.
III. Application or Applying :- Ability to use learned material in new and
concrete situations.
Define, Describe, Explain, Recite, Recognise, Illustrate,
Memorize
Interpret, Classify, Compare, Summarise, Infer, Extract etc.
Solve, Relate, Ccomplete, Relate, Change,Teach, Discover,
Transfer etc.
8. IV. Analysis or Analysing :- Beginning of understanding the underlying
structure of knowledge and also able to distinguish between facts and opinion.
V. Evaluation or Evaluating :- Students pass judgements about the value of
ideas, items, materials and more.
VI. Synthesis or Creating :- Ability to combine different components
or elements to form a whole.
Illustrate, Conclude, Categorise, Connect, Relate,
Conclude etc.
Prioritize, Plan, Reframe,Value, Critisize, Plan, Defend,
Judge etc.
Modify, Develop, Design, Invent, Collaborate, etc.
