Blooms+Taxonomy

Blooms

Blooms taxonomy uses six different levels of cognition, it is with these that lessons can be modified to suit the students in the classroom. The lower levels of thinking is just memory and recall of information. In the normal Blooms taxonomy this is where most of the learning happens. With gifted students this triangle can be inverted so that the emphasis is put on higher order thinking (as pictured below)

The cognitive requirements of each level are as follows:


 * Knowledge** - Locate, match, identify, listen, observe
 * Comprehension** - Research, ask, discover
 * Application** - List, construct, teach, paint, report, sketch, experiment, manipulate, interview, stimulate
 * Analysis** - Classify, categorise, separate, compare, contrast, advertise, survey, dissect
 * Synthesis** - Combine, invent, compose, hypothesise, role-play, create, write, imagine, infer
 * Evaluation** - Judge, evaluate, discuss, debate, decide, recommend, choose

(Moltzen, Riley & McAlpine, 2000)