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Bloom's taxonomy

Meaning in education & teaching, with examples

nounCommon term

In education & teaching, Bloom's taxonomy means: A framework that sorts thinking skills into levels, from remembering and understanding up to analyzing, evaluating and creating, used to write objectives and questions.

In Turkish: Bloom taksonomisi

How it is used

Named after the educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom; first published in 1956 and revised in 2001. Teachers use it to plan higher-order questions and to choose verbs for learning objectives. People talk about lower-order and higher-order thinking skills.

Example sentences

  1. Using Bloom's taxonomy, try to include at least two questions that ask students to evaluate.

  2. Most of the test questions sit at the bottom of Bloom's taxonomy: they only test recall.

Common collocations

  • revised Bloom's taxonomy
  • higher-order thinking skills
  • lower-order questions
  • Bloom's verbs
  • learning objectiveA short statement of what students should know or be able to do by the end of a lesson or unit, written so that the teacher can check whether it was achieved.
  • learning outcomeA statement of the knowledge, skills or attitudes that students should be able to show at the end of a course, unit or program.
  • critical thinkingThe ability to analyze information, question ideas, judge evidence and reach well-reasoned conclusions instead of simply accepting what you read or hear.
  • assessmentThe process of collecting information about what students know and can do, for example through tests, tasks, questions or observation, and judging their progress.

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