Bloom's Taxonomy Overview
The original Taxonomy of Educational Objectives is commonly referred to as Bloom's Taxonomy, named after Benjamin Bloom who devised a system of categorizing and classifying student learning objectives (SLOs). Bloom's work was originally published in 1956. Bloom's framework divided educational objectives into three "domains": cognitive, affective and psychomotor or skills-based objectives. Each domain contained six major levels of learning, and learning at the higher levels is dependent on attaining skills at the lower levels of learning. The initial intent was for education to focus on all three of these domains for a more complex and holistic form of education.
Creating
Evaluating
Analyzing
Applying
Understanding
Remembering
Remembering
Recall specific facts.
Key words:
- Choose
- Observe
- Show
- Copy
- Omit
- Spell
- Define
- Quote
- State
- Duplicate
- Read
- Tell
- Find
- Recall
- Trace
- How
- Recite
- What
- Identify
- Recognize
- When
- Label
- Record
- Where
- List
- Relate
- Which
- Listen
- Remember
- Who
- Locate
- Repeat
- Why
- Match
- Reproduce
- Write
- Memorize
- Retell
- Name
- Select
Actions:
- Describing
- Finding
- Identifying
- Listing
- Locating
- Naming
- Recognizing
- Retrieving
Outcomes:
- Definition
- Fact
- Label
- List
- Quiz
- Reproduction
- Test
- Workbook
- Worksheet
Assessment types
Multiple choice
- Identify
- Recall
- Recognize
- Select
Matching
- Arrange
- Identify
- Match
- Recall
- Recognize
Short Answer
- Define
- List
- Name
Understanding
Grasp meaning of instructional materials.
Key words:
- Ask
- Cite
- Classify
- Compare
- Contrast
- Demonstrate
- Discuss
- Estimate
- Explain
- Express
- Extend
- Generalize
- Give examples
- Illustrate
- Indicate
- Infer
- Interpret
- Match
- Observe
- Outline
- Predict
- Purpose
- Relate
- Rephrase
- Report
- Restate
- Review
- Show
- Summarize
- Translate
Actions:
- Classifying
- Comparing
- Exemplifying
- Explaining
- Inferring
- Interpreting
- Paraphrasing
- Summarizing
Outcomes:
- Collection
- Examples
- Explanation
- Label
- List
- Outline
- Quiz
- Show and tell
- Summary
Assessment types
Multiple choice
- Classify
- Distinguish
- Select
Matching
- Classify
- Distinguish
- Select
Short Answer
- Describe
- Discuss
- Explain
- Summarize
Essay
- Describe
- Discuss
- Explain
Discussion Board
- Describe
- Discuss
- Explain
Applying
Use information in a new situation.
Key words:
- Act
- Administer
- Apply
- Associate
- Build
- Calculate
- Categorize
- Choose
- Classify
- Connect
- Construct
- Correlation
- Demonstrate
- Dramatize
- Employ
- Experiment with
- Group
- Identify
- Illustrate
- Interpret
- Interview
- Link
- Make use of
- Manipulate
- Model
- Organize
- Perform
- Plan
- Practice
- Relate
- Represent
- Select
- Show
- Simulate
- Solve
- Summarize
- Teach
- Transfer
- Translate
- Use
Actions:
- Carrying out
- Executing
- Implementing
- Using
Outcomes:
- Demonstration
- Diary
- Illustrations
- Interview
- Journal
- Performance
- Presentation
- Sculpture
- Simulation
Assessment types
Multiple choice
- Apply
- Determine
- Interpret
- Solve
Matching
- Determine
Short Answer
- Apply
- Illustrate
- Interpret
- Modify
- Solve
Essay
- Apply
- Interpret
- Modify
- Produce
Discussion Board
- Apply
- Illustrate
- Interpret
- Modify
Analyzing
Take apart the known and identify relationships.
Key words:
- Analyse
- Appraise
- Arrange
- Assumption
- Breakdown
- Categorize
- Cause and effect
- Choose
- Classify
- Differences
- Discover
- Discriminate
- Dissect
- Distinction
- Distinguish
- Divide
- Establish
- Examine
- Find
- Focus
- Function
- Group
- Highlight
- In-depth discussion
- Inference
- Inspect
- Investigate
- Isolate
- List
- Motive
- Omit
- Order
- Organize
- Point out
- Prioritize
- Question
- Rank
- Reason
- Relationships
- Reorganize
- Research
- See
- Select
- Separate
- Similar to
- Simplify
- Take part in
- Test for
- Theme
- Comparing
Actions:
- Attributing
- Deconstructing
- Integrating
- Organizing
- Outlining
- Structuring
Outcomes:
- Abstract
- Chart
- Checklist
- Database
- Graph
- Mobile
- Report
- Spread sheet
- Survey
Assessment types
Multiple choice
- Analyze
- Appraise
- Diagnose
- Infer
Short Answer
- Analyze
- Appraise
- Compare
- Contrast
- Diagnose
- Examine
- Infer
Essay
- Analyze
- Appraise
- Diagnose
- Examine
- Infer
Discussion Board
- Analyze
- Appraise
Evaluating
Examine information and make judgments.
Key words:
- Adapt
- Add to
- Build
- Change
- Choose
- Combine
- Compile
- Compose
- Construct
- Convert
- Create
- Delete
- Design
- Develop
- Devise
- Discover
- Discuss
- Elaborate
- Estimate
- Experiment
- Extend
- Formulate
- Happen
- Hypothesize
- Imagine
- Improve
- Innovate
- Integrate
- Invent
- Make up
- Maximize
- Minimize
- Model
- Modify
- Original
- Originate
- Plan
- Predict
- Produce
- Propose
- Reframe
- Revise
- Rewrite
- Simplify
- Solve
- Speculate
- Substitute
- Suppose
- Tabulate
- Test
- Theorize
- Think
- Transform
- Visualize
Actions:
- Constructing
- Designing
- Devising
- Inventing
- Making
- Planning
- Producing
Outcomes:
- Advertisement
- Film
- Media product
- New game
- Painting
- Plan
- Project
- Song
- Story
Assessment types
Short Answer
- Compose
Essay
- Compose
- Create
- Design
- Develop
Discussion Board
- Compose
Creating
Use information to create something new.
Key words:
- Agree
- Appraise
- Argue
- Assess
- Award
- Bad
- Choose
- Compare
- Conclude
- Consider
- Convince
- Criteria
- Criticize
- Debate
- Decide
- Deduct
- Defend
- Determine
- Disprove
- Dispute
- Effective
- Estimate
- Evaluate
- Explain
- Give reasons
- Good
- Grade
- How do we know?
- Importance
- Infer
- Influence
- Interpret
- Judge
- Justify
- Mark
- Measure
- Opinion
- Perceive
- Persuade
- Prioritize
- Prove
- Rate
- Recommend
- Rule on
- Select
- Support
- Test
- Useful
- Validate
- Value
- Why
Actions:
- Attributing
- Checking
- Deconstructing
- Integrating
- Organizing
- Outlining
- Structuring
Outcomes:
- Abstract
- Chart
- Checklist
- Database
- Graph
- Mobile
- Report
- Spread sheet
- Survey
Assessment types
Multiple choice
- Conclude
- Predict
Short Answer
- Appraise
- Conclude
- Defend
- Justify
- Predict
Essay
- Appraise
- Conclude
- Defend
- Evaluate
- Justify
- Predict
Discussion Board
- Appraise
- Defend
- Evaluate
- Justify
- Predict