Revised Bloom’s

Taxonomy
• In 1956, Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart,
Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a
framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of
Educational Objectives.
• Bloom's Taxonomy comprises three learning domains: the
cognitive, affective, and psychomotor, and assigns to each of
these domains a hierarchy that corresponds to different levels of
learning. It's important to note that the different levels of thinking
defined within each domain of the Taxonomy are hierarchical.
• Anderson and Krathwohl are the primary authors of the revisions
to what had become known as Bloom's Taxonomy — an ordering
of cognitive skills.
 Cognitive Domain
 The cognitive domain is focused
on intellectual skills such as
critical thinking, problem solving,
and creating a knowledge base. It
was the first domain created by
the original group of Bloom's
researchers.
 There are six levels of cognitive
learning according to the revised
version of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Each level is conceptually
different. The six levels are
remembering, understanding,
Cognitive Domain

Recall previous learned information.

Remembering

Comprehending the meaning, translation, interpolation

Understanding
of instructions and problems.

Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of

Applying
an abstraction.

Analyzing Distinguishes between between facts and inferences.

Evaluating Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

Creating Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements.

Affective Domain

• The affective domain (Krathwohl, Bloom, Masia,

1973) includes the manner in which we deal with
things emotionally, such as feelings, values,
appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes.
Affective
Domain
Awareness, willingness to hear, selected attention.
Receiving Phenomena

Active participation of the learners.

Responding to Phenomena

The worth or value a person attaches to a particular object,

Valuing phenomenon, or behavior.

Organizes values into priorities by contrasting different values,

Organization
Internalizing Values (Characterization)
resolving conflicts between them, and creating an unique value
system.
Has a value system that controls their behavior. The behavior is
pervasive, consistent, predictable, and most importantly,
characteristic of the learner.
Psychomotor Domain
The psychomotor domain
involves physical
movement and the use of
motor skills. This
includes coordination and
posture. The psychomotor
aspect of body movement
involves the occurrences
in the mind before,
during, and after
movement.
Simpson’s Psychomotor
Domain
Perception is the most basic level of being able to process
Perception (Awareness) sensory information (i.e., things we see, hear, smell, etc.)

Readiness to act. It includes mental, physical, and emotional

Set
sets.
The early stages in learning a complex skill that includes
Guided Response
imitation and trial error.

Mechanism (basic proficiency) This is the immediate stage in learning a complex skill.

The skillful performance of motor acts that involve complex

Complex overt response (Expert)
movement patterns.
Skills are well developed and the individual can modify
Adaptation
movement patterns to fit special requirements.
Creating new movement patterns to fit a particular situation
Origination or specific problem.