Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational

Objectives
What are Objectives?

 a goal towards which the learner

is made to move
 it is a part of an aim. ie., a part
that would help in gradually
reaching the ultimate distant
goal. ie., the aim anticipated.
 A taxonomy is really just a word for
a form of classification.

Bloom's taxonomy is a set of

three hierarchical models used to
classify educational learning
objectives into levels of
complexity and specificity.
What is Bloom's taxonomy of learning?
 Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956
under the leadership of educational
psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom.
 Bloom and his associates developed a
taxonomic model of instructional
objectives in order to promote higher
forms of thinking in education, such as
analyzing and evaluating concepts,
processes, procedures, and principles,
rather than just remembering facts
(rote learning).
 What Bloom Taxonomy is used for?

 Bloom's taxonomy is a classification

system used to define and distinguish
different levels of human cognition—i.e.,
thinking, learning, and understanding.
 It is most often used when designing
educational, training, and learning
processes.
 it is an ordering of cognitive skills.
 3 domains

• Cognitive domain (thinking)

• Affective domain(emotion/feeling)
• Psychomotor domain
(physical/kinesthetic)
WHAT IS COGNITIVE DOMAIN ?

The cognitive domain is

organized in a hierarchy that
begins with the straightforward
acquisition of knowledge, followed
by the more sophisticated
cognitive tasks of comprehension,
application, analysis, synthesis
and evaluation.
 What is affective domain?

The affective domain is part of a

system that was published in 1965
for identifying, understanding and
addressing how people learn.
 What is psychomotor domain ?
• The psychomotor domain (Simpson,
1972) includes physical movement,
coordination, and use of the motor-
skill areas.
• Development of these skills requires
practice and is measured in terms of
speed, precision, distance, procedures
or techniques in execution.
Inter-relationship of 3 domains
Objectives in 3 domains
Objectives in Cognitive domain

Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Objectives in Affective domain

Receiving
Responding
Valuing
Organisation
Characterisation
Objectives in Psychomotor domain

Imitation
Manipulation
Precision
Articulation
Naturalisation
 Cognitive Domain
Knowledge
Specifications:
• Recalls (facts, terms, concepts, principles,
trends,..…)
• Recognises (facts, terms, concepts,….)
• Reads (information from maps, charts, diagrams,
graphs, etc.)
Comprehension
Specifications:
• Discriminates (the items)
• Classifies (items belong to the same class)
• Compares (and Contrasts items)
• Identifies (relationship)
• Detects (the points)
• Cities (illustrations for a concept)
• Detects (errors and fallacies)
• Explains (concepts, principles, etc.)
• Interprets (data in different forms)
Application
Specifications:
• Analyses (the unfamiliar situations or problems)
• Establishes (relationship between related items)
• Suggests (alternative methods for solving a
particular problem)
• Selects (appropriate method)
• Draws (inferences and make generalisations)
• Make predictions (probable outcomes of a given
situation)
Analysis
Specifications:
Synthesis
Specifications:
Evaluation
Specifications:
 Instructional Objectives for Social
Science teaching
• Knowledge
• Understanding / Comprehension
• Application
• Interest
• Attitude (positive attitudes)
• Appreciation
• Skills (practical skills)