Focus Question

Who? What? When? Where? Describe,

Explain, Outline, List, Name, Identify,

Focus Area : SEGREGATION IN THE USA OR SEGREGATION
Explain,
WITHIN AUSTRALIA

Break down your topic by listing all your SIMPLE questions here.
Come up with as many questions as you can.
This will also help you plan your research.

Segregation: Impact on education during the time.

How has segregation been used to disempower minority groups?
In post colonial contexts, how has segregation been used to
disempower minority groups?

White Australia Policy: impact on contemporary societys

construction?
How is Australias immigration laws shaped by the history of policy?

Evaluate how segregation has been used to disempower minority

groups

Account for the impacts of segregation upon minority groups in

different societies.

To what extent

Investigate, Analyse, Evaluate, Assess, Discuss,

Judge, Defend, Clarify, Distinguish, Predict,
Interpret, Hypothesise, Recommend, Justify,
Construct, Design,

Now you are ready to write ONE COMPLEX question

Use Blooms taxonomy to develop a higher order
question.
In post-colonial contexts, evaluate the disempowerment of minority groups
through segregation.
OR

In post colonial contexts, evaluate the use of

segregation to disempower minority groups.

Focus Question

Blooms Revised Taxonomy

Focus Question
Note that in Blooms revised taxonomy, the terms have been altered
and reorganised. The original terms are still regularly used, as in the
table below. The synthesis terms are generally applicable to
creating.Blooms Taxonomy and the Glossary of terms
Level of Thinking
Knowledge
The remembering of factual
information.

Comprehension
The ability to show an understanding
of information.

Application
The ability to use previously learned
material in new situations.

Analysis
The ability to explore understandings
and relationships between
component parts of information.

Synthesis
The ability to put ideas together to
form
a new product

Evaluation
The ability to judge the value of
material or ideas for a set purpose.

Glossary Terms
access, recognise, describe,
extract, follow, gather, identify,
record, select, specify

account, clarify, compare,

discuss,
explain, distinguish, predict,
qualitatively account for, trace
apply, classify, demonstrate,
examine, implement, present,
actively participate in a practical
investigation, use
analyse , associate, investigate,
qualitatively analyse, research,
structure

collate, construct, design,

modify, plan, propose,
summarise

assess, discuss, draw

(conclusions), evaluate, justify,
negotiate, produce some,
recommend, respect

NSW Department of Education and Training, 2006