Better than Bloom? A recent Google search for “Bloom’s taxonomy” reveals over 50,000 hits.
After almost 50 years, Bloom’s taxonomy is still being used by educators and trainers as a pedagogical tool for the analysis of learning objectives. Originally designed as a method for the development of test questions, the six levels of the cognitive domain (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation) have become almost standard in the “learning business”. I used Bloom’s taxonomy about ten years ago, while developing an estimate for the cost of CBT development. We assumed that the higher the level, the higher would be the cost. With hundreds of performance objectives, we quickly reduced the six levels to three, but I now realise that there could have been many other ways to address the problem.
Bloom's Taxonomy. Mary Forehand The University of Georgia Introduction One of the basic questions facing educators has always been "Where do we begin in seeking to improve human thinking?
" (Houghton, 2004). Fortunately we do not have to begin from scratch in searching for answers to this complicated question. Bloom's (revised) Taxonomy. Digital Bloom's Visual. I was playing around today trying to create a visual representaion of a Digital version of the new Bloom's hierarchy.
I'm either going to link the images in this illustration directly and publish on a wiki or I will come back here and provide all the links in a list format, separated by Bloom's level. If you're interested in "Digital Bloom's," you can search for "Bloom," "Bloom's" or "taxonomy" in my Delicious/Diigo tags: or.