Benjamin Bloom's Taxonomy

Group members and Majors

Benjamin Bloom

• American Education Psychologist.
• Classification of education objectives and the theory of mastery learning.
• Bloom attended Penn State University where he earned his bachelors and maters in psychology.

Huy Tran

Benjamin Bloom. (2016, December 14). New World Encyclopedia, . Retrieved 2021 from https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/p/index.php?title=Benjamin_Bloom&oldid=1001950.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Bloom and many of his peers developed the Bloom's Taxonomy in 1956.
•  They published the final version of Taxonomy of Educational Objective.
• It was developed to better assess college student performance and is used as a tool by teachers for teaching purposes. 

Huy Tran

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Huy Tran

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

• A group of two educators ( Lorin Anderson and Krathwohl ) reorganized and created in 2001.
• Use of verbs to replace nouns for the reason of provide learners with a clear understanding.

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Huy Tran

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Remember 

• It is the first level of Bloom's Taxonomy and  the most basic level. 
• This level helps students memorize and recall facts. 
• Strategies: Outline, recall, multiple choice questions, professor asking questions 

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Ana Martinez 

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Remember 

• Academic tasks: used in class when teachers call on students to define or describe a topic.  
• Workplace Task: Active recall at work (any workplace) is mostly used. 
• Personal Affect: I use this stage of Bloom's Taxonomy on the daily. Whether it's in class, at work, even at home. I'm constantly using the remember stage 

Ana Martinez 

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

UNDERSTAND

• The second level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
• This level asks students to explain problems or ideas in their own words.
• Academic tasks: use verbs like defend, explain, paraphrase, summarize and translate. 
• Workplace task: interpret the materials and demonstrate comprehension of the material.
• Personal Affect: I use this stage when studying for biology, when I need to summarize topics like Evolution in my own words.

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Chika Okolo

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Apply

• It is the third level of Bloom's Taxonomy.
• This level helps students apply what they learned in school to their daily lives.
• Academic task: When using a formula on a Math exam. 
• Workplace task: When being punctual thus applying the company's rule and regulation.
• Personal Affect: I use this stage when I budget for my weekly expenses.

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Yulian Bolka

Yulian Bolka

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

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Analyzing

• The analyzing level is the fourth level of Blooms Taxonomy, and it consists of allowing students to apply their critical thinking. Students apply their critical thinking to get a better understanding on how different concepts corelate to each other.
• In this level students create connections between ideas & concepts, deconstruct knowledge and texts to it's main idea.

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Dennys Quevedo

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

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Analyzing

• Academic Tasks: Involved when writing a summary. Or used when breaking down a main idea into simpler terms for explanation. It is also used to understand new concepts from past lectures by making connections between the two.
• Workplace Tasks: Breaking down a new idea and understanding how it will benefit the workplace.
• Personal Affect: This corelates to my life as I am taking a biology course and every lecture builds up from the last. I need to break the topics down to get a better understanding and make connections between them to see how they corelate to each other.

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Dennys Quevedo

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Evaluate

• The fifth level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Make an educated judgment about the material we have learned.
• Academic task: finding a solution to math problem.
• Workplace task: Using for surveys and/or blogs.

Huy Tran

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

Create

• The sixth level of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
• Showing the knowledge by applying, analyzed, evaluated what we have learned.
• Academic task: writing a manual or report on a particular topic.
• Workplace task: designing a piece of machinery or revising a process to improve the results.

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Huy Tran

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

CONCLUSION

• These six (6) steps of Bloom's Taxonomy all work together because they depend on each other for effectiveness, both in academics and workplace.
• For instance, Before you can understand a concept, you must remember it.
• To apply a concept, you must first understand it.
• To evaluate a process, you must have analyzed it and to create an accurate conclusion, you must have completed a thorough evaluation.

Chika Okolo

Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide Retrieved 2021 

Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

References

Christine, P. (2021). Bloom’s Taxonomy: The Ultimate Guide . Retrieved from Ultimate Guide To Implementing Bloom's Taxonomy in Your Course | Top Hat

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Yulian Bolka