Innovations and Excellence Bendigo Secondary Schools' Cluster

Principle Four - Blooms Taxonomy

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Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who, in 1956, developed a method of classifying cognitive thinking into different levels, each building on the previous level, from the most simple to the most abstract. Cognitive learning includes knowledge recall, comprehending information, organizing ideas, analyzing and synthesizing data, applying knowledge, choosing among alternatives in problem-solving, and evaluating ideas or actions. These skills are targeted in education.

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Table of verbs for Bloom's Taxonomy This table is invaluable in ensuring that questions and activities beyond the levels of knowledge and comprehension are developed.

Oz-Teacher Net - Bloom's Revised Taxonomy popular as part of the Middle Years of Schooling Program

Developing Questions That Matter This site provides Blooms level of thinking plus adverbs plus sentence stems.

Questioning Tool Kit From Now On the Educational Technology Journal

The Question Press From Now On the Educational Technology Journal

Applying Bloom's Taxonomy - verbs/sentence stems/ activities