Understanding Bloom

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Understanding Blooms Taxonomy

• Become aware of ways to create higher-level
  thinking objectives that will translate into
  high-level thinking multiple-choice questions!

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Breaking Down Blooms

• Blooms Taxonomy A measuring tool utilized to
  determine educational goals, classify standards
  that need to be addressed, and provide a
  universal language about the educational goals.
• Blooms Pyramid is prominent for its six
  categories that were developed to cover all of
  the levels of cognitive domain.
• It has since been revised to concentrate more on
  targeting higher level thinking in students.

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Building on Bloom
The Cognitive Process Dimension
The Knowledge Dimension Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create
A. Factual Knowledge
B. Conceptual Knowledge
C. Procedural Knowledge
D. Metacognitive Knowledge
This is the Revised Taxonomy that focuses on
cognitive processing and knowledge
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Dimensions of Knowledge?

• Factual Knowledge- What do students have to know
  in order to understand a subject?
• Conceptual Knowledge- Knowing how different
  elements relate to one another and how they work
  together.
• Procedural Knowledge- Having the skills or
  techniques to do something.
• Metacognitive Knowledge- Being aware of your own
  knowledge and cognition, as well as how you
  process information.

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Cognitive Process Dimension?

• Remembering Information retrieval.
• Understanding Processing and comprehending types
  of communication.
• Applying Performing a procedure in a particular
  environment.
• Analyzing Itemizing content and determining how
  they relate to each other.
• Evaluating Assessing material based on
  standards.
• Creating Taking elements and constructing a
  product to illustrate mastery of a topic.

Lowest Level
Highest Level
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Verbs to Use in Objective Writing
Remember Recognize, Recall
Understand Interpret, Exemplify, Classify, Summarize, Infer, Compare, Explain
Apply Execute, Implement
Analyze Differentiate, Organize, Attribute
Evaluate Check, Critique
Create Generate, Produce, Plan
Lower Level Thinking
Higher Level Thinking
Remember the Behavior part of the ABCD method?
These verbs are describing the behavior that
needs to be observed!
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Putting it all Together

• Utilizing the table, instructors can see what
  types of knowledge and cognitive processes are
  involved within their objectives.
• In order to make good multiple choice questions,
  instructors need to write clear objectives that
  cater as much as possible to higher-level
  thinking.
• Once objectives have been created, you will know
  how to create a test question that reflects the
  behavior you want your students to observe!

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Understanding It All!

• You now know and understand the ABCD Method.
• You also are now aware of Blooms Taxonomy and
  have been provided a list of verbs to utilize to
  fill in for your behaviors within your
  objectives.
• Try writing a few objectives that cater to
  high-level thinking. Look at the table and verbs
  to aid you.

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My Sample Effective High-Level Thinking Objective!

• After viewing the presentation entitled
• Understanding Blooms Taxonomy, the
• students will create an example of a high-level
• thinking objective with 100 accuracy.

Condition
High Level Thinking Verb
Audience
Behavior
Degree
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Great Work!

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