BLOOM TAXONOMY??

BLOOM TAXONOMY????

                Approximately all educators have been, at some point, exposed to Bloom’s Taxonomy when developing objectives.  And, while not all developers may use the  taxonomy  as guide in developing educational succession and range, the majority  feel it is helpful in focusing  on learner outcomes which not only address low order cognitive level  but higher  level as well .  (Muzio, et. al., 2001) suggests the following basis at the back the use of Bloom’s taxonomy:

·         Bloom’s terms are comparatively easy to understand by beginner developers with little, if no, experience of instructional plan.

·         A number of synonyms are able to be given for each of Bloom’s terms.  This is helpful when developing verbs specifying learner outcomes.

Bloom’s taxonomy helpout in development of Instructional objectives instrumented by Table of specification .This understanding was supported by comments made byBloom and his colleagues (1956) allthrough the Handbook. 

On page 18, for example, flaey wrote: 

"We  are  of  the  opinion  that  although  the  objectives  and  test  materials  and techniques may  be specified in an  almost unlimited number of ways, the student behaviors  involved  in  these  objectives  can  be  represented  by  a  relatively  small  number  of  classes.  Therefore, this  taxonomy is designed to  be  a  classification of the student behaviors  which  represent the

intended outcomes of the educational process."  (p.  18).

According to Bloom

“The goals of a teaching unit, may find that they all fall within  the  taxonomy  category  of  recalling  or  remembering  knowledge. Looking  at  the  taxonomy  categories  may  suggest  [that  the  teacher]  could include some goals dealing with the application of this knowledge and with the analysis of the situations  in which  the knowledge is  used” (Bloom  et  al.,  1956,p.  2)

Illustrated by Author

In the 1990's a former student student of Bloom's named Lorin Anderson revisited and revised the taxonomy.