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Bloom's Revised Taxonomy

Bloom created a learning taxonomy in 1956. During the 1990's, a former student of
Bloom's, Lorin Anderson, updated the taxonomy, hoping to add relevance for 21st
century students and teachers. This new expanded taxonomy can help instructional
designers and teachers to write and revise learning outcomes.
Bloom's six major categories were changed from noun to verb forms.

The new terms are defined as:

Remembering

Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge


from long-term memory.

Understanding

Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic


messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying,
summarizing, inferring, comparing, and explaining.

Applying

Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or


implementing.

Analyzing

Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how


the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or
purpose through differentiating, organizing, and
attributing.

Evaluating

Making judgments based on criteria and standards through


checking and critiquing.

Creating

Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional


whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or
structure through generating, planning, or producing.

S. DeMatteo, 1/14/2017

Because the purpose of writing learning outcomes is to define what the instructor wants
the student to do with the content, using learning outcomes will help students to better
understand the purpose of each activity by clarifying the students activity. Verbs such as
"know", "appreciate", "internalizing", and "valuing" do not define an explicit
performance to be carried out by the learner. (Mager, 1997)
Unclear Outcomes

Revised Outcomes

Students will know described


cases of mental disorders.

Students will be able to review a


set of facts and will be able to
classify the appropriate type of
mental disorder.

Students will understand the


relevant and irrelevant numbers
in a mathematical word problem.

Students will distinguish between


relevant and irrelevant numbers in
a mathematical word problem.

Students will know the best way


to solve the word problem.

Students will judge which of the


two methods is the best way to
solve the word problem.

Figure 2: Examples of unclear and revised outcomes.

References
Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching
and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of educational outcomes:
Complete edition, New York : Longman.
Cruz, E. (2003). Bloom's revised taxonomy. In B. Hoffman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of
Educational Technology. Retrieved
August 22, 2007, from
http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/articles/bloomrev/start.htm
Forehand, M. (2005). Bloom's taxonomy: Original and revised.. In M. Orey (Ed.),
Emerging perspectives on learning, teaching, and technology. Retrieved August
22, 2007, from http://projects.coe.uga.edu/epltt/

S. DeMatteo, 1/14/2017

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