Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within education
proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom who also
edited the first volume of the standard text, Taxonomy of educational
objectives: the classification of educational goals.
Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains": Cognitive,
Affective, and Psychomotor. A goal of Bloom's Taxonomy is to motivate educators
to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.
Cognitive Domain. Skills in the cognitive domain revolve around knowledge, comprehension, and critical thinking on a particular topic. Traditional education tends to emphasize the skills in this domain, particularly the lower-order objectives.
There are six levels in the taxonomy, moving through the lowest order processes to the highest:
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