Blooms+Taxonomy+-+Cognitive+Domain

Bloom's Taxonomy **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:
 * a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives).
 * Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains": [|Cognitive], [|Affective], and [|Psychomotor] (sometimes loosely described as //knowing/head//, //feeling/heart// and //doing/hands// respectively).
 * Within the domains, learning at the higher levels is considered to be dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels.
 * One goal of Bloom's Taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more [|holistic] form of education.

Knowledge
Exhibit memory of previously learned materials by recalling facts, terms, basic concepts and answers Questions like: What are the health benefits of eating apples?
 * Knowledge of specifics - terminology, specific facts
 * Knowledge of ways and means of dealing with specifics - conventions, trends and sequences, classifications and categories, criteria, methodology
 * Knowledge of the universals and abstractions in a field - principles and generalizations, theories and structures

Comprehension
Demonstrate understanding of facts and ideas by organizing, comparing, translating, interpreting, giving descriptions, and stating the main ideas Questions like: Compare the health benefits of eating apples vs. oranges.
 * Translation
 * Interpretation
 * Extrapolation

Application
Using new knowledge. Solve problems in new situations by applying acquired knowledge, facts, techniques and rules in a different way Questions like: Which kinds of apples are best for baking a pie, and why?

Analysis
Examine and break information into parts by identifying motives or causes. Make inferences and find evidence to support generalizations Questions like: List four ways of serving foods made with apples and explain which ones have the highest health benefits. Provide references to support your statements.
 * Analysis of elements
 * Analysis of relationships
 * Analysis of organizational principles

Synthesis
Compile information together in a different way by combining elements in a new pattern or proposing alternative solutions Questions like: Convert an "unhealthy" recipe for apple pie to a "healthy" recipe by replacing your choice of ingredients. Explain the health benefits of using the ingredients you chose vs. the original ones.
 * Production of a unique communication
 * Production of a plan, or proposed set of operations
 * Derivation of a set of abstract relations

Evaluation
Present and defend opinions by making judgments about information, validity of ideas or quality of work based on a set of criteria Questions like: Do you feel that serving apple pie for an after school snack for children is healthy?
 * Judgments in terms of internal evidence
 * Judgments in terms of external criteria

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