This week, we talked about Bloom's Taxonomy, and Bloom's three learning domains.
Bloom's original taxonomy was in the order of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Imagine a pyramid, with knowledge being the base and working your way up to evaluation at the top.
Bloom's Taxonomy, however, has been revised, using new terminology.
It now looks like this...remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating (creating now takes the place of synthesis).
With this revised taxonomy, there are also verbs to go along with each level.
Bloom's Taxonomy can be thought of as a ladder. Each step brings the learner higher and higher.
As for Bloom's three learning domains, they are cognitive, affective, and psychomotor.
Cognitive is the learner's mental skills (knowledge). Affective covers the growth in feelings/emotional areas (attitude). Psychomotor is the learner's manual/physical skills.
There are three domains simply because there is more than one factor the teacher should take into consideration when dealing with a student.
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