Revised Bloom’s taxonomy of cognitive domain a sketch note and key points

Dr. Lalit Kishore, Dean, Science FacultyParishkar College of Global Excellence, Jaipur, India

Key points abstracted from Wikipedia

Bloom's taxonomy is a way of organising learning and education system in the form of classified learning.

Bloom's taxonomy refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). It divides educational objectives into three "domains": cognitive, affective, and psychomotor or head, heart and hands-domains

A goal of Bloom's taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.

Bloom's taxonomy is considered to be a foundational and essential element within institutional level planning of curriculum, classroom instruction and student evaluation.

However, often a thorough training and education on bloom’s taxonomy is required before its effective use to organize teaching and learning around it.

There are six levels or domains in the taxonomy, moving through the lowest order processes to the highest:

Revised taxonomy also uses verbs and gerunds to describe the cognitive processes to organize teaching and learning. Here is the basic list to make a beginning.

Remember: Recognizing; Recalling

Understand: Interpreting; exemplifying; classifying; summarizing; inferring; paraphrasing; comparing; explaining

Apply: Executing; implementing; problem solving

Analyze: Differentiating; detailing; reasoning; organizing; attributing; categorising

Evaluate: Checking; critiquing; diagnosing; assessing; testing

Create: Generating; designing; Planning; Producing; innovating; inventing; reconstructing