About Benjamin Bloom

Background info on who is Benjamin Bloom

1. Bloom’s Taxonomy
Ceanlia Vermeulen

2. About Benjamin Bloom
A facilitator, a scholar, and a researcher in
the field of Education
Taxonomy of educational objectives:
Handbook 1, the cognitive domain (Bloom
et al., 1956)
www.ibe.unesco.org/International/Publications/Thinkers/ThinkersPdf/bloome.pdf

3. Six Levels of Questions
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
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4. Knowledge Level
Recall of information
Knowledge of data, events, and places
Knowledge of major ideas
Mastery of Subject matter
Question Cues:
–List, define, tell, describe, identify, show, label,
collect, examine, who, when , where, etc.
List the major cities in South Africa.
Define the capital city of South Africa.

5. Comprehension Level
Understanding information
Grasp key meaning
Translate knowledge to a new context
Interpret, compare, contrast facts
Order, group, infer causes
Question cue:
–Summarize, interpret, contrast, associate,
distinguish, estimate, differentiate, discuss,
extend, why, etc.
Discuss the environmental problems existing in the major cities
in South Africa.
Infer the causes for the problems.

6. Application Level
Use information
Use methods, concepts, theories in new situation
Solve problems using required skills or knowledge
Question cues:
–Apply, demonstrate, calculate, complete, illustrate, show,
solve, examine, modify, relate, change, experiment,
discover, etc.
Work out possible solutions for the environmental problems in the major
cities in South Africa. Calculations and experiments skills might be
involved during the process to answer the question.

7. Analysis Level
Seeing patterns
Organization of parts
Recognition of hidden meanings
Identification of components
Question cues:
–Analyze, separate, order, explain, connect, classify,
arrange, divide, compare, select, explain, etc.
Classify the environmental problems into different categories.

8. Synthesis Level
Use old ideas to create new ones
Generalize, predict from given facts
Relate knowledge from several areas
Draw conclusions
Question cues:
–Combine, integrate, modify, rearrange, substitute, plan,
create, design, invent, what if?, compose, formulate,
prepare, generalize, rewrite, predict, etc.
Design and plan a social activity to call for more urban residents to
contribute to environmental protection.

9. Evaluation Level
Compare and discriminate between ideas
Judge and appreciate value of concepts, theories,
and principles
Make choice based on reasoned argument
Verify values of evidence
Recognize subjectivity
Question Cues:
–Assess, decide, rank, grade, test, measure, recommend,
convince, select, judge, discriminate, support, conclude,
etc.
Recommend the most practical and economic environment protecting plan
to the city government. Use evidences and arguments to support your
recommendations and convince the ministers.

10. Exercises
Identify the capital of Australia from the
following list: Melbourne, Sydney, Canberra
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation

11. Exercises
What classification of animals would a
FROG belong to?
–mammal / bird / fish / reptile / amphibian / insect
Analysis
Comprehension
Application
Knowledge
Synthesis
Evaluation

12. Exercises
Predict what would have happened to early Native Americans if they
did not follow the migration of buffaloes:
–They would hunt and eat other animals instead / They would
starve / They would get all their food by farming
Synthesis
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Knowledge
Evaluation

13. Great !!! Good job !!
This is a basic question of
knowledge to test whether
learners recall the knowledge
being taught.
Next Question

14. Great !!! Good job !!
The learners are asked about the
classification of animals and apply
his/her knowledge to answer this
question. The facilitators should
follow the question by asking the
learner to justify the answers.
Next Question

15. Great !!! Good job !!
The learners are asked to
PREDICT what would happen
based on the given facts and
their previous knowledge
related.

16. Sorry, that’s not correct.
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17. Sorry, that’s not correct.
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18. Sorry, that’s not correct.
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19. Thank you!
Ceanlia Vermeulen
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