3. BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
• In the 1950’s, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of
educational psychologists whose goal was to develop a
system of categories of learning behavior to assist in the
design and assessment of educational learning. The
group identified three domains of learning.
• Cognitive (thinking)
• Affective (feeling)
• Psychomotor (doing)
4. The Cognitive Domain
• Cognition refers to conscious mental
activities, and include thinking, reasoning,
understanding, learning, and remembering.
• The taxonomy contains six levels, with
sublevels identified for each.
5. The Cognitive Domain
A reminder for remembering the six levels:
Killing
Cats
Almost
Always
Seems
Evil
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
15. The Cognitive Domain
Analysis
Student distinguishes,
classifies, and relates the
assumptions, hypotheses,
evidence, or structure of a
statement or question.
20. The Cognitive Domain
Synthesis
The student will design a
classification scheme for writing
educational objectives that
combines the cognitive, affective,
and psychomotor domains.