Blooms Revised Taxonomy 1
Blooms Revised Taxonomy 1
Blooms Revised Taxonomy 1
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.
Remembering
Understanding
Applying
Analyzing
Evaluating
Creating
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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
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/
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