BLOOM'S TAXONOMY OR HOW TO MAKE A LESSON AT SCHOOL MORE understandable Bloom's taxonomy is a hierarchy of thinking skills in which higher levels of thinking include all cognitive skills from lower levels. Taxonomy (classification in hierarchical order, from...
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BLOOM'S TAXONOMY OR HOW TO MAKE A LESSON AT SCHOOL MORE understandable Bloom's taxonomy is a hierarchy of thinking skills in which higher levels of thinking include all cognitive skills from lower levels. Taxonomy (classification in hierarchical order, from Greek taxis - order; nomus - law). In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, published a taxonomy of educational goals for cognitive activity that proved unusually valuable for the characteristics and outcomes of academic work. The taxonomy was developed to teach teachers how to classify a learning task and how to define and rank learning objectives. Bloom's theory is based on the idea that learning goals and outcomes are not the same. For example, memorizing scientific facts, no matter how important they are, is at a lower level than the ability to analyze or evaluate. To apply a concept, you must first understand it. To evaluate a process, you must first analyze it. Each subsequent level is upgraded ove
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