Tuesday, March 27, 2007

VERY ANNOYED Bloom's Taxing Taxonomy

I am very annoyed because half my blogs from February have been deleted............. So the next couple of entries are kind of backdating!!!!!!

BLOOMS TAXonomy

Benjamin Bloom created this taxonomy for putting abstract questions that we ask students to answer in categories of relevance. The taxonomy provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions, since teachers will characteristically ask questions within particular levels, and if you can determine the levels of questions that will appear on your exams, you will be able to study using appropriate strategies.

In 1956 Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. Bloom found that over 95 % of the test questions students encounter require them to think only at the lowest possible level...the recall of information.
Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation.

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