1. Bloom’s Taxonomy

2. It was established in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom Image courtesy of www.mainlinehealth.org

3. Bloom's taxonomy: is an educational theory And it classifies learning areas into three domains

4. Three Domains: 1- Affective 2- Psychomotor 3- Cognitive

5. 1- Affective Relating to: attitude Or emotional intelligence Image courtesy of www.zazzle.com

6. 2- Psychomotor Relating to: physical abilities Or skills Image courtesy of www.actx.edu

7. 3- Cognitive Relating to: knowledge And thinking skills Image courtesy of www.aea267.k12.ia.uswww.aea267.k12.ia.us Image courtesy of www.vced.org.au

8. Within Cognitive domain, there are six skills:

9. 1- Knowledge 2- Comprehension 3- Application 4- Analysis 5- Synthesis 6- Evaluation

10. Usage of Taxonomy of educational objectives (cognitive domain): 1- Provide classification of the goals of our educational system. &

11. 2- To be helpful for teachers, administrators, professional specialists and workers who deal with curricular and evaluation problems.

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13. Bloom’s Taxonomy 1- What is Knowledge ? Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

14. Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge is those behaviours which emphasize the remembering, either by recognition or recall, of ideas (Bloom et all., 1956, p. 62). 1: Knowledge Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

15. Bloom’s Taxonomy Comprehension represents taking in new information via some form of communications. 2: Comprehension Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

16. Bloom’s Taxonomy Note: In the taxonomy, information can be presented linguistic (verbal or written), and symbolically or experientially. 2: Comprehension Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

17. Bloom’s Taxonomy Application requires a step beyond Comprehension. In Comprehension, the student requires to know the abstraction well enough. 3: Application Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

18. Bloom’s Taxonomy However, in Application, a new problem given to the student, he will then apply the appropriate abstraction without having to be shown how to use it in that situation. 3: Application Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

19. Bloom’s Taxonomy 1- In Comprehension, the emphasis is on the grasp of the meaning and intent of the material. 4: Analysis Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com Remember two things,

20. Bloom’s Taxonomy 2- In application, it is on remembering and bringing to bear upon given material the appropriate generalizations or principles. 4: Analysis Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com And

21. Bloom’s Taxonomy However, Analysis emphasizes the detection of relationship of the parts and of the way they are organized. Analysis is divided into three subcategories: 4: Analysis Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

22. Bloom’s Taxonomy 1- The identification or classification of elements, 4: Analysis Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com 3- Organizational principles that govern elements. An d 2- Relationships among elements,

23. Bloom’s Taxonomy Synthesis is putting together elements and parts as to form a whole. This is a process of working with elements, parts, et., and combining them in such a way as to constitute a pattern or structure which did not exist before. 5: Synthesis Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

24. Bloom’s Taxonomy Generally, this would involve a recombination of parts of previous experiences with new material, reconstructed into a new and more or less well integrated whole. 5: Synthesis Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

25. Bloom’s Taxonomy 6- What is Evaluation ? Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

26. Bloom’s Taxonomy Evaluation involves making judgments about the value of knowledge. 6: Evaluation Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

27. Bloom’s Taxonomy By definition, evaluation is a form of decision making, done at a very conscious and thoughtful level. 6: Evaluation Image courtesy of www.businesscasualblog.com

28. Conclusion Bloom’s taxonomy is an educational theory which is divided into six skills:

29. Prepared by: Ziaawalhaq Moheq (Business Scholar, Bachelor of Banking & Finance) Date: 03/08/2013 E-mail: z_mohiq@yahoo.com web: http://seminar-in-current-events.jimdo.com/the- scholars/muhammad-ziaawalhaq-moheq / z_mohiq@yahoo.com http://seminar-in-current-events.jimdo.com/the- scholars/muhammad-ziaawalhaq-moheq /

30. References: Bloom, B. S. (1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook I: The Cognitive Domain. New York: David McKay Co Inc. Anderson, L.W., & Sosniak, L.A. (Eds.). (1994). Bloom's taxonomy: a forty-year retrospective. Ninety-third yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Pt.2., Chicago, IL., University of Chicago Press. Anderson, Lorin W. & Krathwohl, David R. (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching and Assessing: a Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy. New York. Longman Publishing