What is taxonomy according to benjamin bloom?

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What is taxonomy according to benjamin bloom?

Answer 1

Bloom's theories

Bloom exercised considerable influence in academic educational psychology. His main contributions to the area of education involved mastery-learning, his model of talent-development, and his Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the cognitive domain.

He focused much of his research on the study of educational objectives and, ultimately, proposed that any given task favours one of three psychological domains: cognitive, affective, or psychomotor. The cognitive domain deals with a person's ability to process and utilize (as a measure) information in a meaningful way. The affective domain relates to the attitudes and feelings that result from the learning process. Lastly, the psychomotor domain involves manipulative or physical skills.

Benjamin Bloom headed a group of cognitive psychologists at the University of Chicago who developed a taxonomic hierarchy of cognitive-driven behavior deemed important to learning and to measurable capability. (For example, one can measure an objective that begins with the verb "describe" , unlike one that begins with the verb "understand".)

Bloom's classification of educational objectives, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Handbook 1: Cognitive Domain (Bloom et al., 1956), addresses the cognitive domain (as opposed to the psychomotor and affective domains) of knowledge. Bloom’s taxonomy provides a structure in which to categorize instructional objectives and instructional assessment. He designed the taxonomy in order to help teachers and instructional designers to classify instructional objectives and goals. The taxonomy relies on the idea that not all learning objectives and outcomes have equal merit. For example, memorization of facts, while important, does not equate to the learned ability to analyze or to evaluate. In the absence of a classification-system (a taxonomy), teachers and instructional designers may choose, for example, to emphasize memorization of facts (which makes for easier testing) rather than emphasizing other (and likely more important) learned capabilities.



The Bloom's Wheel, according to Bloom's verbs and matching assessment types, and including only feasible and measurable verbs.Bloom’s taxonomy in theory helps teachers better prepare objectives and, from there, derive appropriate measures of learned capability and Higher order thinking skills. Curriculum-design, usually a State (governmental) practice, did not reflect the intent of such a taxonomy until the late 1990s. Note that Bloom, as an American academic, lacks universal approval of his constructs.

The curriculum of the Canadian Province of Ontario offers a good example of the application of a taxonomy of educational objectives: it provides for its teachers an integrated adaptation of Bloom's taxonomy. Ontario's Ministry of Education specifies as its taxonomic categories: Knowledge and Understanding; Thinking; Communication; Application. Teachers can classify every 'specific' learning objective, in any given course, according to the Ministry's taxonomy.

Decade of dedication

In 1985 Bloom conducted a study suggesting that one requires at least 10 years of hard work (a "decade of dedication"), regardless of genius or natural prodigy status, in order to achieve recognition in any respected field.

Answer 2

I've never heard of benjamin bloom but taxonomy (according to oikos) is the science of naming and classifying organisms and the study of their evolution.

Answer 3

Blooms taxonomy is simple, it is a way of rating your levels of thinking. Knowledge is the most simple; it is when you memorize facts, such as addresses and phone numbers.

Next is comprehension; the understanding of materials. Reading a book and finding a moral falls under this.

After that is application, using previous knowledge in new ways. For example, if you know how to tie a knot, you can learn to use that know to attach a line to a fishing pole.

Then, there is analysis, the breaking down of something in order to understand it. For example, turning something such as an atom and classifing it into its parts such as nucleus.

The second to last is synthesis, making something completly new. Henry Ford did this by making a cheap car.

Evaluation is judging materials, such as finding a winner or giving a grade.