Bloom’s Taxonomy:
Bloom’s Taxonomy is an essential element within educational community. Its original domain was comprised of cognitive aspect, affective aspect and psychomotor aspect. All these three aspects were loosely known as head, heart and doing respectively.
Cognitive Domain: In a cognitive domain, learner recalls the information. S/he interprets the meaning of the data or the information that s/he has received. He uses concept and applies it to the information. He analyzes the concept and distinguishes between fact and inference. He reorganizes the concept and gives it a new meaning. He judges the ideas and materials.
Affective Domain: It deals with feelings of the learner. Learner receives the phenomena and he responds to it. He organizes the values for behavior and creates a system to control his behavior.
Psychomotor Domain: This domain is concerned with physical movements of learner. He becomes aware with certain perceptions and set himself ready to act according to those perceptions.
Original Domain:
Original domain was introduced in 1956. Its main levels were…
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation
Learner gains knowledge with the help of basic concept. Based on this knowledge, he understands, classifies and interprets the main ideas. He applies this knowledge to solve problems. He examines, correlates and distinguishes information to support the generalizations. He constructs and designs information by combining elements in a new pattern. He evaluates validity of ideas.
Revised Version:
Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy was contributed by J. Anderson in 2001.
• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analyzing
• Evaluating
• Creating
In revised version, nouns were replaced by verbs. Knowledge and remembering were renamed in order to create the better understanding of learner’s thinking. Synthesis and comprehension were re-titled. Evaluating and creating were re-organized. Learner retrieves knowledge from long term memory. He constructs the meaning from communication. He applies knowledge to whatever task is given to him. He breaks material into parts and relates them. He makes judgments based on standards. He puts and re-organizes these parts into a new pattern or structure.
Summing up, Bloom’s Taxonomy provides motivation to educators to focus on all the three domains and thus helping create essential form of education. It also helps to equally assess student’s learning. In educational sphere, it is a source of inspiration to develop new teaching strategies.
Bloom’s Taxonomy is an essential element within educational community. Its original domain was comprised of cognitive aspect, affective aspect and psychomotor aspect. All these three aspects were loosely known as head, heart and doing respectively.
Cognitive Domain: In a cognitive domain, learner recalls the information. S/he interprets the meaning of the data or the information that s/he has received. He uses concept and applies it to the information. He analyzes the concept and distinguishes between fact and inference. He reorganizes the concept and gives it a new meaning. He judges the ideas and materials.
Affective Domain: It deals with feelings of the learner. Learner receives the phenomena and he responds to it. He organizes the values for behavior and creates a system to control his behavior.
Psychomotor Domain: This domain is concerned with physical movements of learner. He becomes aware with certain perceptions and set himself ready to act according to those perceptions.
Original Domain:
Original domain was introduced in 1956. Its main levels were…
• Knowledge
• Comprehension
• Application
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Evaluation
Learner gains knowledge with the help of basic concept. Based on this knowledge, he understands, classifies and interprets the main ideas. He applies this knowledge to solve problems. He examines, correlates and distinguishes information to support the generalizations. He constructs and designs information by combining elements in a new pattern. He evaluates validity of ideas.
Revised Version:
Revised version of Bloom’s Taxonomy was contributed by J. Anderson in 2001.
• Remembering
• Understanding
• Applying
• Analyzing
• Evaluating
• Creating
In revised version, nouns were replaced by verbs. Knowledge and remembering were renamed in order to create the better understanding of learner’s thinking. Synthesis and comprehension were re-titled. Evaluating and creating were re-organized. Learner retrieves knowledge from long term memory. He constructs the meaning from communication. He applies knowledge to whatever task is given to him. He breaks material into parts and relates them. He makes judgments based on standards. He puts and re-organizes these parts into a new pattern or structure.
Summing up, Bloom’s Taxonomy provides motivation to educators to focus on all the three domains and thus helping create essential form of education. It also helps to equally assess student’s learning. In educational sphere, it is a source of inspiration to develop new teaching strategies.
