Revision Of Blooms Taxonomy-Anderson

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The first few pages have a great breakdown / summary.

learning objectives

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
  • Meta-Cognitive

    • 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.

inert knowledge

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.