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Bloom’s Taxonomy: Its Potential & Limitations. Ana Serrano & Jackie Dewar LMU Center for Teaching Excellence April 25, 2007. What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?. A hierarchical classification system for levels of intellectual behavior and educational goals
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Bloom’s Taxonomy:Its Potential & Limitations Ana Serrano & Jackie Dewar LMU Center for Teaching Excellence April 25, 2007
What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? • A hierarchical classification system for levels of intellectual behavior and educational goals • An indispensable resource when designing courses or lessons • A system to align curriculum and evaluation with precision • A useful tool for analyzing questions
BLOOM’S TAXONOMY Original (1956) Revised (2001) Bloom & Krathwohl Anderson & Krathwohl http://www.coe.uga.edu/epltt/bloom.htm
HISTORY • Curriculum emerges as a field of study toward the close of the 19th century • APA 1948 BLOOM AND EDUCATORS TOOK ON TASK TO CLASSIFY OBJECTIVES:Cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains • RALPH TYLER, 1949-Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction • IN 1956 BLOOM PUBLISHED HANDBOOK CALLED: TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES (COGNITIVE DOMAIN).
Current Usage • Course and lesson design • Writing learning goals and objectives • Consider levels of thinking • Determine alignment of objectives, activities and assessments • Analyzing questions • Aligning objectives, tasks and assessments Resource: Richlin (2006) Blueprint for Learning
Your Disciplinary Perspective TASK: Discuss the potential & limitations of Bloom’s Taxonomy in your field. Use the post-it paper to record points of agreement.
• Identifies great potential for objectives • Examine Curriculum alignment • Differentiate activities from objectives • Useful for test development Does not address questions of values in education Focus on change in behavior rather than transformation Overlap between and within categories Critique of BT: Positives and Negatives