learning taxonomies bsp research residency institute 7/24/14 miriam segura-totten, ph.d
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Education goals and objectives are classically grouped into three domains:
Cognitive (intellectual skills)
Affective (emotions or behavior)
Psychomotor (manual or physical skills)
Education goals and objectives are classically grouped into three domains:
Cognitive (intellectual skills)
Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
Anderson (2001) revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and applied verbs to the different categories in the original taxonomy, which facilitates its use for assessment.
Affective (emotions or behavior)Krathwohl’s Taxonomy
Psychomotor (manual or physical skills)Harrow’s and Simpson’s taxonomies
Education goals and objectives are classically grouped into three domains:
Cognitive (intellectual skills)
Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
Anderson (2001) revised Bloom’s Taxonomy and applied verbs to the different categories in the original taxonomy, which facilitates its use for assessment.
Affective (emotions or behavior)Krathwohl’s Taxonomy
Psychomotor (manual or physical skills)Harrow’s and Simpson’s taxonomies
Education goals and objectives are classically grouped into three domains:
Cognitive (intellectual skills)Bloom’s Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain
Affective (emotions or behavior)Krathwohl’s Taxonomy
Psychomotor (manual or physical skills)Harrow’s and Simpson’s taxonomies
Overview and tools for other taxonomies can be found at http://assessment.uconn.edu/primer/taxonomies1.html
Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Domains
Application(apply)
Synthesis(create)
Evaluation(evaluate)
Analysis(analyze)
LOCS
HOCS
Comprehension(understand)
Knowledge(remember) (Crowe et al., 2008)
LOCS/HOCS
Blooming Biology Tool (BBT): “[…] assist science faculty in better aligning their assessments with their teaching activities and to help students enhance their study skills and metacognition” (Crowe et al., 2008)
But it is also useful in SoTL!
So--how can I use the BBT in my research?
Can design assessments (to test your hypothesis) that target a particular level of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Can students better comprehend a particular topic?Does a particular intervention increase student knowledge?Is there improvement of student higher order thinking?
Can score assessments for a particular level of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Segura-Totten and Dalman (2013) JMBE paper
Research question: Can dissecting the primary literature increase student critical thinking skills?
Problem: Need to define critical thinking (CT) to measure it. CT is difficult to define. No real consensus on what critical thinking is.
Example from my research
Defining Critical Thinking (CT) Skills
Higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS) necessary for the analysis and evaluation of data, as well as the synthesis of information to create new knowledge or inferences (Crowe et al., 2008; Zoller, 1993).
Critical thinking skills can be measured by examining student performance at the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Domains (Bissell and Lemons, 2006; Crowe et al., 2008).
Hypothesis Using the CREATE approach will lead to gains in
student critical thinking skills.
Research DesignCREATE approach (Experimental) vs. traditional article discussions (Control)
Pre/post assessments that target analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills (CT).
Exam questions (used BBT to design these)Critique of a primary article
Hypothesis Using the CREATE approach will lead to gains in
student critical thinking skills.
Research DesignCREATE approach (Experimental) vs. traditional article discussions (Control)
Pre/post assessments that target analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills (CT).
Exam questions (used BBT to design these)Critique of a primary article
Hypothesis Using a structured approach to dissect and analyze
the primary literature will lead to gains in student critical thinking skills.
Research DesignStructured approach (Experimental) vs. traditional article discussions (Control)
Assessments target analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills (CT).
Exam questions (used BBT to design these)Critique of a primary article
Using BBT to score an assessment Rubric designed from critique instructions.
Learning objectives align with what we asked students to do in instructions.
Determined components of correct answer.
Categorized components by level of Bloom’s.
By adding score, we can determine how proficient students are at HOCS/CT.
The take home message
Learning taxonomies can allow you to:
Think about a research question and create/choose a definition that will help you address your question.
Design assessments to test your hypothesis.
Score assessments to tease out the particular skill you’re interested in.
ReferencesBissell, A. N., and P. P. Lemons. 2006. A new method for assessing critical thinking in the classroom. BioScience 56:66–72.
Crowe, A., C. Dirks, and M. P. Wenderoth. 2008. Biology in bloom: implementing Bloom’s Taxonomy to enhance student learning in biology. CBE Life Sci. Educ. 7:368-81
Zoller, U. 1993. Are lecture and learning compatible? Maybe for LOCS: unlikely for HOCS. J. Chem. Educ. 70:195-97.
Segura-Totten, M., and N.E. Dalman. 2013. The CREATE model does not result in greater gains in critical thinking than a more traditional method for analyzing the primary literature. J Microbiol Biol Educ. 14(2):166-75.