Blooms Taxonomy

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Blooms Taxonomy
Benjamin S. Bloom February 21, 1913-September 13,
1999
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Benjamin Bloom

• In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of
  educational psychologists at the University of
  Chicago
• This group developed a classification of levels
  of thinking behaviors thought to be important in
  the processes of learning.
• The assumption abilities can be measured along
  a continuum from plain and simple to rather
  complex.

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Each subsequent level in the taxonomy is
  dependant on ones ability to perform at the
  level or levels that precede it.

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Blooms work not only served to define what
  learning had been achieved, it could also be used
  to specify the learning desired in an objective.

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation

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Knowledge

• Knowledge level learning (aka memory level)
  requires a person to exhibit previously learned
  material by recalling facts, terms, basic
  concepts and answers.
• Two levels of Knowledge
• Simple Knowledge
• Knowledge of Process

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Knowledge

• Simple Knowledge the content to be remembered
  involves no more than a single response to a
  particular stimulus.
• Example
• What is the capital of Australia?

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Knowledge

• Knowledge of Process the content to be
  remembered is a sequence of steps.
• Example
• List the steps used to determine the standard
  deviation from a given set of scores.

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Comprehension

• Comprehension - demonstrating understanding of
  facts and ideas by organizing, comparing,
  translating, interpreting, giving descriptions
  and stating main ideas.

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Application

• Solving problems by applying acquired knowledge,
  facts, techniques and rules in a given situation
  or in a different way.

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Application

• Example
• From observing symptoms of a person in distress,
  students determine whether or not cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation (CPR) should be initiated.

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Application

• Do not confuse application with knowledge of
  process
• Students demonstrate appropriate procedures for
  administering CPR to a person.

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Analysis

• Examining and breaking information into parts by
  identifying motives or causes making inferences
  and finding evidence to support generalizations.

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Analysis

• Example
• Is a pigeon a reptile, mammal, or avian?

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Synthesis

• Compiling information together in a different way
  by combining elements in a new pattern or
  proposing alternative solutions.
• True genius is the ability to recognize the
  similarities in apparently dissimilar sets, and
  the dissimilarities in apparently similar sets.

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• 33 3 x 3 x 3 27
• 32 3 x 3 9
• 31 3 3
• 30 ?

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Evaluation

• Presenting and defending opinions by making
  judgments about information, validity of ideas or
  quality of work based on a set of criteria.
• Example Prove or disprove the following
  statement
• Any number divided by zero is zero

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Students will state the Pythagorean Theorem
  (cognitive, simple knowledge).
• a2 b2 c2

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• Given two sides of a right triangle, students use
  the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate the length
  of the third side (cognitive, knowledge of
  process).

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• Students properly use the Pythagorean Theorem to
  solve problems (cognitive, application).
• What is the height of the schools flag pole?
• Is the corner of the room square?
• How many gallons of paint are needed to paint
  the walls of this room?

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• Students recognize the Pythagorean Theorem in
  various forms (cognitive, analysis).
• What is the relationship of the Pythagorean
  Theorem to the following two equations?
• sin2 cos2 1

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• Demonstrate a mathematical proof of the
  Pythagorean Theorem (cognitive, evaluation).

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• Goal students will be able to multiply
• Simple Knowledge 3 x 6 18
• Comprehension
• 3x6 666 333333 18

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Goal students will be able to multiply
• Application You and your friends Amy, Ed, Jill,
  Pat, and Bob want to go to the movie. If tickets
  cost 3 each, how much money will the group need
  to pay for the movie?

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Goal students will be able to multiply
• Analysis

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Blooms Taxonomy

• Goal students will be able to multiply
• Synthesis Does the illustration demonstrate that
  3 x 6 18?

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• Goal students will be able to multiply
• Evaluation
• Here is an example of a students responses to a
  worksheet.
• 1. 27 2. 38 3. 14 4. 56
• _ x 6_ _ x 8_ _ x 2_ _ x 5_
• 362 724 28 400
• Describe the error in the process that the
  student appears to have used in order to reach
  his/her answers.