“Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Objectives”

In today’s lecture, I got a paper about learning skill. This is “Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning objectives”, the concept of six levels about learning skills or something in general. This is very useful and interesting, so I will introduce you this in the following:




Level 1: Knowledge;
Description; Memorization of facts, theories and principles
Sample skills; recall, list, name ,state, define, identify, match

Level 2: Comprehension;
Description; show basic understanding
Sample skills; discuss, paraphrase, compute, extrapolate

Level 3: Application;
Description; apply knowledge (ideas or theories or principles) to new situations; application to situations where there is one correct answer
Sample skills; solve demonstrate, apply, interpret, choose, classify, use, calculate, relate

Level 4: Analysis;
Description; decompose a topic into its constituent parts, show relationships among the more basic ideas; solutions where there is not necessarily a specific correct answer
Sample skills; separate, recognize, test, differentiate, solve

Level 5: Synthesis;
Description; put parts of knowledge together, discover relationships among different parts, create new patterns
Sample skills; design, order, develop, create, summarize, combine, propose

Level 6: Evaluation;
Description; make judgments regarding extent to which something satisfies chosen criteria
Sample skills; evaluate, justify, critique, appraise



Generally, we think the skill is from level 1 to 3, but this concept has even more, 4 to 6. From wide viewpoint, 1 to 3 are “inner” skill, such as solving problem, necessary in business situation, and 4 to 5 are “ outer” skill, like abstraction, essential for academic work, and 6 is “total” skill to connect “inner” and “outer”. I will want to get those ability, through this exchange program!