Bloom’s Taxonomy

In 1956, Bloom and colleagues developed a cognitive taxonomy featuring six major categories of learning behaviours (knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation). Later, Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) Links to an external site. revised and extended the taxonomy by including a metacognition category (learning about one’s learning), which has been arguably the version more easily applied for teachers when designing assessment.

Explore the interactive activities below to learn more about how to use Bloom's taxonomy, and explore the revised taxonomy in the figure to assist in designing learning activities.

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?
Visit this handy resource Links to an external site. to explore Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs
Discover verbs based on each level of Bloom’s Taxonomy. This resource Links to an external site. is useful when designing Unit or Course Learning Outcomes.

Types of activities 
Explore what types of educational activities align to Bloom’s cognitive skill levels in this mind-map activity. Links to an external site.

Test your understanding
Do you think you understand the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy? Try this interactive exercise Links to an external site..

 

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