Bloom’s Taxonomy

1. Bloom’s Taxonomy Revised Version

2. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Instructional Activities(revised version – page 52) • Create • Evaluate • Analyze • Apply • Understand • Remember

3. Remember Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory. Key verbs: count, define, draw, fill in the blank, identify, indicate, label, list, locate, match, memorize, name, point, quote, read, recall, recite, recognize, record, repeat, spell, state, tabulate, tell, trace, underline, write

4. Understand Construct meaning from messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication. Key verbs: classify, compute, convert, define, describe, differentiate, discuss, distinguish, estimate, explain, extrapolate, illustrate, interpret, paraphrase, predict, put in order, recognize, rephrase, restate, retell in your own words, rewrite, summarize, trace, translate

5. Apply Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation. Key verbs: apply, calculate, classify, compute, conclude, construct, demonstrate, determine, develop, draw, employ, examine, experiment with, find out, give an example, illustrate, make, operate, organize, practice, relate, restructure, show, solve, state a rule or principle

6. Analyze Break material into its parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose. Key verbs: categorize, classify, compare, contrast, debate, deduct, detect, determine the factors, diagnose, diagram, differentiate, dissect, distinguish, examine, group, infer, order, relate, separate, specify, summarize, transform

7. Evaluate Make judgments based on criteria and standards. Key verbs: change, combine, compose, construct, debate, defend, disprove, design, find an unusual way, formulate, generate, integrate, invent, modify, originate, plan, predict, prescribe, pretend, produce, propose, rank, rearrange, reconstruct, reorganize, revise, suggest, suppose, visualize, write

8. Create Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganize them into a NEW pattern or structure. Key verbs: adapt, build, change, compile, compose, construct, create, elaborate, hypothesize, imagine, invent,originate, transform.

9. Engaged Students • Create • Evaluate • Analyze • Apply • Understand • Remember

10. Strategically Compliant Students • Create • Evaluate • Analyze • Apply • Understand • Recall & sometimes remember

11. Ritually Compliant Students • Create • Evaluate • Analyze • Apply • Understand • Recall short term

12. Retreatists and Rebels • Learn little • Develop negative attitudes toward learning