Bloom’s Taxonomy

 Bloom’s Taxonomy is one of the most important frameworks that has certainly changed education. Bloom’s Taxonomy refers to a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that, inter alia, is used by teachers to support students’ learning.

This framework can be used to plan lessons, develop peer and self-assessment, design and evaluate teaching materials, learning and instructional design, plan learning objectives, plan students’ projects…..etc.

The evolution of this Taxonomy dates back to 1956 when Benjamin Bloom, Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a framework for classifying educational goals entitled Educational Objectives Taxonomy or Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Later on, 

known as Bloom’s taxonomy. 

This framework has been used by many teachers and educators at that time.

Bloom’s taxonomy included six major levels: 

knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. 

All the categories in Bloom’s taxonomy except knowledge were considered skills and abilities because knowledge is a necessary prerequisite for putting these skills into practice.

Bloom’s taxonomy has been revised by a group of cognitive psychologists and instructional researchers in 2001, and it was entitled A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.

The revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy has become broader than the old one. 

The developers of the revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy believe that it is very dynamic and broad in terms of conceptions of classifications. 

It includes six main categories. In each category, there are multiple sub-categories:

first category: Remember

1. Recognizing

2. Recalling

second category: Understand

1. Interpreting 

2. Exemplifying

3. Classifying

4. Summarizing. 

5. Inferring

6. Comparing

7. Explaining

third category :Apply

1. Executing 

2. Implementing

 fourth category:Analyze

1. Differentiating

2. Organizing

3. Attributing

fifth category: Evaluate

1. Checking

2. Critiquing

sixth category : Create

1. Generating –

2. Planning 

3. Producing

Uses 

According to bloom’s taxonomy, it can be used in the classroom to:

1. Organizing learning objectives according to Priorities.

2. Planning and delivering instructional content.

3. Designing valid assessments that match what The students studied.

4. Evaluating lessons and learning objectives.

5. Assuring the alignment of instruction and assessment.

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