Revision Of Blooms Taxonomy-Anderson
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The first few pages have a great breakdown / summary.
important organizing questions:
- learning - What is important for students to learn
 
- instruction - How can we deliver instruction
 
- Assessment - How to accurately determine whether students have learned?
 
- Alignment - Are the 3 things above consistent with each other?
 
- Factual - Basic terminology
 
- Conceptual - Relations between concepts
 
- Procedural - How to do something
 
- Knowledge about strategy
- Self Knowledge
 
When making an assessment, note what stage of the cognitive process you are assessing and make sure you are assessing only that stage.
- classify- sort into categories
 
- explain- construct a cause->effect model
 
- attribute- determine the POV, bias, values, or intent underlying presented material
 
Chapter 2 has some criticisms of learning objectives, in that they can be too general, that not every student responds in the same way.
Chapter 4 has a breakdown of types of knowledge and the subtle differences between them.
- retention: can you remember what was said in the past
- transfer: can you apply that knowledge?
Chapter 5 goes into examples and possible assessments of cognitive processes.
Bookmark Section 3
Chapter 6
The objective is to use the laws of magnetism, which goes in a specific cell. A variety of activities around this topic go in nearby cells.
- Mentions formative vs summative assessments.
- implementation vs execution: if an assignment has unfamiliar tasks, it’s implementation. If it’s all familiar, it’s execution.
Chapter 7 on is about vignettes, uses of the taxonomy in real classrooms.