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In 1956 Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning; The research showed that 95 % of the test questions required students to think only at the lowest level, i.e. to recall information
Description
skill knowledge Comprehension definition
Recall information
key words
Identify, describe, name, label,
application
analysis synthesis evaluation
In 1999, Dr. Lorin Anderson, a former student of Blooms, and his colleagues published an updated version of Blooms taxonomy that takes into account a broader range of factors that have an impact on teaching and learning. The revised taxonomy differentiates between knowing what, the content of thinking and knowing how, the procedures used in solving problems.
Factual knowledge includes isolated bits of information, such as vocabulary definitions and knowledge about scientific details; Conceptual knowledge consists of systems of information, such as classifications and categories;
Procedural knowledge includes algorithms, heuristics or rules of thumb (educated guesses, intuitive judgment), techniques, and methods as well as knowledge about when to use these procedures; Metacognitive knowledge refers to knowledge of thinking processes and information about how to manipulate these processes effectively.
Has six skills from simplest to most complex: Remember Understand Apply Analyse Evaluate Create
Remembering consists of recognizing and recalling relevant information from long-term memory; Understanding is the ability to make your own meaning from educational material such as reading and teacher explanations. The subskills for this process include interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing and explaining;
Applying refers to using a learned procedure either in a familiar or new situation; Analysis consists of breaking knowledge down into parts and thinking about how the parts relate to its overall structure. Students analyse by differentiating, organizing and attributing.
Evaluation includes checking and critiquing; Creating, not included in the earlier taxonomy, is the highest component of the new version. This skills involves putting things together to make something new. To accomplish the creating tasks, learners generate, plan, and produce.
According to this taxonomy, each level of knowledge can correspond to each level of cognitive process, so a student can remember factual or procedural knowledge, understand conceptual or metacognitive knowledge, or analyze metacognitive or factual knowledge
Original Terms
New Terms
Creating
Evaluating Analysing Applying Understanding Remembering
Change in Terms
The names of six major categories were changed from noun to verb forms. As the taxonomy reflects different forms of thinking and thinking is an active process verbs were more accurate. The subcategories of the six major categories were also replaced by verbs. Some subcategories were reorganised. (
Change in Terms
The knowledge category was renamed. Knowledge is a product of thinking and was inappropriate to describe a category of thinking and was replaced with the word remembering instead. Comprehension became understanding and synthesis was renamed creating in order to better reflect the nature of the thinking described by each category.
Change in Emphasis
More authentic tool for curriculum planning, instructional delivery and assessment. Aimed at a broader audience. Easily applied to all levels of schooling. The revision emphasises explanation and description of subcategories.
Higher-order thinking by students involves the transformation of information and ideas. This transformation occurs when students combine facts and ideas and synthesise, generalise, explain, hypothesise or arrive at some conclusion or interpretation. Manipulating information and ideas through these processes allows students to solve problems, gain understanding and discover new meaning.
When students engage in the construction of knowledge, an element of uncertainty is introduced into the instructional process and the outcomes are not always predictable; in other words, the teacher is not certain what the students will produce. In helping students become producers of knowledge, the teachers main instructional task is to create activities or environments that allow them opportunities to engage in higher-order thinking. The basic question is how to improve human thinking
Although it received little attention when first published, Bloom's Taxonomy has since been translated into 22 languages and is one of the most widely applied and most often cited references in education.
A good teacher makes you think even when you dont want to.
(Fisher, 1998, Teaching Thinking)