Learning

Bloom’s Taxonomy

In 1956 Benjamin Bloom developed his taxonomy of learning objectives. It is an important tool for thinking about learning. In 2001 Lorin Anderson a former student of Bloom with David Krathwohl published a revised version of the taxonomy. The levels of the taxonomy and verbs associated with them are as follows:

Remembering: Can you recall or remember the information?
Recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding.

Understanding: Can you explain ideas or concepts?
Interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining, comparing.

Applying: Can you apply what you know to a new situation or problem?
Implementing, carrying out, using, executing.

Analysing: Can you break information into different parts and explore the relationships between those parts?
Finding, comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating.

Evaluating: Can you make an in depth assessment? Can you justify your position?
Testing, checking, monitoring, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging.

Creating: Can you generating new ideas or new ways of viewing things or design a new product?
Making, designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing.

This tutorial from the Collorado Community College System provides a useful summary.

Andrew Churches is a teacher and has created a digital version of the revised taxonomy to account for processes and actions where new technologies can support learning.

His quick sheets provide a summary of each level of the taxonomy with possible activities using each level.