Blooms Taxonomy:

A Guide to Thought in the Classroom

By: Shannan Ford
Carrie E. Hill
Colleen Voso

Table of Contents
Historical Background
The Three Domains
Blooms Levels of Questioning
Are you ready to Bloom?
Historical Background
In the 1950s, Benjamin Bloom and a team
of college researchers developed three
levels of educational activities.
Cognitive
Affective
Psychomotor
After focusing solely on the cognitive
aspect, Bloom created his famous
taxonomy.
Cognitive
The cognitive domain involves knowledge
and the development of intellectual skills.

This includes the recall or recognition of
specific facts, procedural patterns, and
concepts that serve in the development of
intellectual abilities and skills.
Affective and Psychomotor
growth in feelings or emotional areas
(Attitude)


manual or physical skills (Skills)


Blooms Taxonomy
Knowledge
Observation and recall of information
Knowledge of major ideas and subject
matter

Question Cues: List, Define, Identify and
Examine.
Comprehension
Understanding information
Interpreting and translating knowledge

Question Cues: Summarize, Contrast,
Predict, Interpret and Discuss
Application
Problem solving and use of knowledge

Question Cues: Demonstrate, Calculate,
Solve, Classify and Experiment
Analysis
Seeing patterns in order to organize and
identify components of information.
Recognizing and identifying hidden
meanings

Question Cues: Analyze, Classify,
Compare, Explain and Infer
Synthesis
Use old ideas to create new ones
Make predictions and generalizations.

Question Cues: Compose, Design,
Generalize, Formulate and Integrate
Evaluation
Compare and discriminate between ideas
Verify value and recognize subjectivity of
information.

Question Cues: Assess, Decide,
Measure, Judge and Recommend
Are You Ready to Bloom?
Describe in your own words Blooms
Taxonomy.

Create a question from the higher levels of
Blooms Taxonomy.

What do you think about applying Blooms
theory in your own classroom?
What level of Blooms Taxonomy does each question represent?
Bibliography
http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/
bloom.html

http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/guides/blo
om1.html

http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Bloo
m/blooms.htm