Bloom's Taxonomy

Benjamin Bloom created this taxonomy for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. The taxonomy provides a useful structure in which to categorize test questions, since professors will characteristically ask questions within particular levels, and if you can determine the levels of questions that will appear on your exams, you will be able to study using appropriate strategies.

 

Critical Thinking Across the Curriculum Project
Bloom's Taxonomy and Critical Thinking

 

Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels, to the highest order which is classified as evaluation.

 

Bloom's taxonomy in action ... online

Most of us think of the Internet as a giant library ... and not always a very good one. But the World Wide Web is more than just a warehouse for disorganized information. For the creative teacher, it's a vast opportunity to encourage student inquiry at every level of Bloom's Taxonomy, from knowledge to evaluation