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Bloom’s Taxonomy: Learning Domains and Revised Cognitive Levels

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Summary

Bloom's taxonomy is a framework educators use to categorize learning objectives and plan instruction. This lesson introduces its history and its three broad domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.

A committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom developed the taxonomy to improve communication about curriculum and examinations. A series of conferences held from 1949 to 1953 led to the publication of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. The first volume, Handbook I: Cognitive, appeared in 1956; Handbook II: Affective followed in 1964. The cognitive taxonomy was revised in 2001.

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What is Bloom’s taxonomy used for?
It organizes learning objectives to help educators align curricula, teaching methods, and assessments with intended learning.
What are Bloom’s three learning domains?
Cognitive (knowledge and intellectual skills), affective (attitudes and values), and psychomotor (physical skills and motor actions).
What are the five levels of the affective domain?
Receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and characterizing.
What are Simpson’s seven psychomotor levels?
Perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptation, and origination.
What is the revised cognitive sequence?
Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create.

Quiz questions

  1. What was a central purpose of the educator conferences that led to Bloom’s taxonomy?Answer: To improve communication about curriculum and examinations.
  2. How does the revised cognitive taxonomy order its two highest levels?Answer: Create follows Evaluate.
  3. In the revised cognitive taxonomy, what does Analyze involve?Answer: Breaking information into parts and examining their relationships.
  4. Which qualification is important when using Bloom’s cognitive levels?Answer: They are not necessarily a strict sequence, and tasks can involve several processes.
  5. How can educators use Bloom’s taxonomy when planning instruction?Answer: Use it to check that objectives, activities, and assessments address intended learning.

Based on the Wikipedia article Bloom's taxonomy, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Adapted into a summary, flashcards and quizzes.

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