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Bloom's Revised Taxonomy Model
Note: These are learning objectives - not learning activities. It may be useful to think of preceding each objective with something like, "students will be able to...:
The Knowledge Dimension
The Cognitive Process Dimension
Factual
The basic elements a student must know to be acquainted with a discipline or solve problems in it.
Conceptual
The interrelationships among the basic elements within a larger structure that enable them to function together.
Procedural
How to do something, methods of inquiry, and criteria for using skills, algorithms, techniques, and methods.
Metacognitive
Knowledge of cognition in general as well as awareness and knowledge of one's own cognition.
Remember
Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
Remember + Factual
List primary and secondary colors.
Remember + Conceptual
Recognize symptoms of exhuastion.
Remember + Procedural
Recall how to perform CPR.
Remember + Metacognitive
Identify strategies for retaining information.
Understand
Construct meaning from instructional messages, including oral, written and graphic communication.
Understand + Factual
Summarize features of a new product.
Understand + Conceptual
Classify adhesives by toxicity.
Understand + Procedural
Clarify assembly instructions.
Understand + Metacognitive
Predict one’s response to culture shock.
Apply
Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation.
Apply + Factual
Respond to frequently asked questions.
Apply + Conceptual
Provide advice to novices.
Apply + Procedural
Carry out pH tests of water samples.
Apply + Metacognitive
Use techniques that match one's strengths.
Analyze
Break material into constituent parts and determine how parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose.
Analyze + Factual
Select the most complete list of activities.
Analyze + Conceptual
Differentiate high and low culture.
Analyze + Procedural
Integrate compliance with regulations.
Analyze + Metacognitive
Deconstruct one's biases.
Evaluate
Make judgments based on criteria and standards.
Evaluate + Factual
Check for consistency among sources.
Evaluate + Conceptual
Determine relevance of results.
Evaluate + Procedural
Judge efficiency of sampling techniques.
Evaluate + Metacognitive
Reflect on one's progress.
Create
Put elements together to form a coherent whole; reorganize into a new pattern or structure.
Create + Factual
Generate a log of daily activities.
Create + Conceptual
