What is Blooms Taxonomy?

Welcome to another framework for evaluating learning.

(Side note, this author is now tired of frameworks for evaluating learning and wishes we could just get on with doing the work of actually learning! alas!)

Here are the authors’ brief explanations of these main categories in from the appendix of Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Handbook One, pp. 201-207):

• Remember “involves the recall of specifics and universals, the recall of methods and processes, or the recall of a pattern, structure, or setting.”

• Understand “refers to a type of understanding or apprehension such that the individual knows what is being communicated and can make use of the material or idea being communicated without necessarily relating it to other material or seeing its fullest implications.”

• Application refers to the “use of abstractions in particular and concrete situations.”

• Analysis represents the “breakdown of a communication into its constituent elements or parts such that the relative hierarchy of ideas is made clear and/or the relations between ideas expressed are made explicit.”

• Evaluation engenders “judgments about the value of material and methods for given purposes.”

• Create involves the “putting together of elements and parts so as to form a whole.”

I will add that this one seems to be used in “education settings” (e.g. schools and universities) but in the workplace I think this framework tells us that, yes knowledge is a necessary precondition but when designing learning objectives, how might we consider the higher levels of cognition?

Here for the GIFs? By all means …