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Bloom’s TaxonomyDeborah Bonita

Denise Thomas

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Benjamin Bloom

• Born: February 21, 1913

• Bloom attend the University of Chicago as well as Pennsylvania State University

• American psychologist who is credit for developing the Bloom’s Taxonomy Theory.

• Developed the six levels of learning which are knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

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•Created by Benjamin Bloom, Bloom’s is used for categorizing and classifying levels of intellectual learning.

•Bloom sought to classify learning behaviors to better understand how knowledge is absorbed.

•There are three domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy: cognitive domain, affective domain, and psychomotor domain.

Bloom and Mastery Learning

• Bloom believed that all children can learn and aimed to demonstrate that through is research

• Bloom’s Taxonomy has been linked to the idea and goal of mastery learning

• Mastery Learning: a model for learning in which students continue to gain information and knowledge, working through modules or teacher instruction only after they have mastered the content of the previous modules

• Bloom believed that all children can learn given the correct conditions for learning and sufficient time

• The principal part of creating the correct conditions for learning is by changing the methods of instruction

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5Key People involved in Theory

Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom, revisited the cognitive domain in the learning taxonomy in the mid-nineties and made some changes, with perhaps the two most prominent ones being, 1) changing the names in the six categories from noun to verb forms, and 2) slightly rearranging them (Pohl, 2000).

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Classroom Implications

In Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Cognitive domain, Bloom believes there are 6 levels to learning: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

•In knowledge stage, he believes teacher recite things so the students can recall the information.

•In comprehension stage, have teachers ask open ended questions for students to have the freedom to respond how they want to evaluate comprehension of topic.

•In application stage, teacher needs to use concept taught in a new situation so students to apply what they learned to a different situation.

•In analysis stage, teachers need to give situation to student and have them come up with how to resolve situation.

•In synthesis stage: teacher gives students certain items and ask students to build something.

•In evaluation, teachers should tell their students how they have done with their work so the students can learn from it.

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What Do We think about Theory?

We think that Bloom’s Taxonomy Theory is very interesting. We agree with his 6 different stages of cognitive domain.

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Skills/Learning Objectives

• Knowledge: arrange, repeat, recall, define, list, match, name, order, narrate, describe

• Comprehension: summarize, classify, explain, discuss, give examples, identify, translate

• Application: apply, demonstrate, solve, change, discover, experiment, interpret, show, present

• Analysis: analyze, experiment, examine, compare, contrast, associate, dissect, conclude, test

• Synthesis: collect, assemble, compose, develop, design, invent, create, plan, revise, role-play, theorize

• Evaluation: compare, assess, contrast, criticize, debate, judge, value, predict, estimate, appraise

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Each level builds different learning skills. The higher the level, the more sophisticated the skill. This in turn also allows teachers to set the level they expect their students to be at when assessing their work. This word list can be included in learning objectives set by teachers to move towards mastery of the subject.

9What the Teacher does with Technologyo Knowledge is Teaching the parts of the Computero Comprehension is Teaching the Students what the Parts

of the Computer Doo Application is Teaching the Students how to Apply and

Demonstrate the Use of the Computero Analysis is Teaching the Students how the Computer can

Change Their Liveso Synthesis is Teaching the Student how to Integrate

Everything the Computer Can Do into One Elemento Evaluation is Teaching the Student to make a Value

Judgment about he Computer

10What the Student Does with

Technologyo Knowledge Students know the Parts of the Computero Comprehension Students know what the Parts of the

Computer are use for.o Application Students know how to show and present

applications on the Computero Analysis Students can Associate how the Computer

can Change their Lives.o Synthesis Students can Collect Ideas and Compose

them on the Computero Evaluation Student can Discriminate between which

Ideas are Best to Use

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Resources http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/hrd/bloom.html

http://www.scite.com/tdc6

http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

www.psy.gla.ac.uk

Shelly, Gary B.. "Technology, Digital Media, and Curriculum." Teachers discovering computers: integrating technology and digital media in the classroom. 6th ed. Boston, Mass.: Thomson/Course Technology, 2010. 375-376. Print.

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