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Blooms Taxonomy Research Paper

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Bloom’s taxonomy is a classification of different levels of learning and questioning. It is divided up in to 3 different domains of learning where different levels are established. Each level must be reached by mastering the previous level. The three different domains are cognitive, affective and psychomotor. These levels in each domain often depicted in a pyramid structure with the base being the most fundamental aspect and the top of the pyramid being the highest level of learning and questioning. If the base is not soundly established then the pyramid will not stand and one will not advance into higher levels. Essentially Bloom’s taxonomy is a way to look at learning and how learning is evaluated. The base level learning is just basic knowledge. An example of this would be learning basic facts. The highest level in the cognitive domain is evaluation. In this level, one would take the basic facts they know and use them to evaluate …show more content…

Lesson plans are designed to engage students in the higher levels of Blooms taxonomy while test questions are written based off of the different levels. Students are no longer asked to regurgitate facts but apply them to new scenarios. For this class, an example would be instead of asking us the facts of the Great Depression, our questions will focus more on what affects did the Depression have on society at the time or even asking us to predict how society would be today had the Great Depression not occurred. These latter questions require a lot higher level thinking. As a student I would still have to know the basic facts to answer the question but a successful answer would show that I not only knew the facts but I knew how they fit together in the bigger picture. It would also force me to develop new, sound ideas based off of these facts. In essence, Bloom’s taxonomy will help show a mastery of the content rather than

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