Benjamin Bloom: Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Domains

taxonomy of 3 learning domains: cognitive, performance or psychomotor and affectiveimpact the way educators write lesson objectives, plan learning activities, and assess student performance

involves the mind and skills or strategies one uses and is organized into 6 levels from lowest order to highest order

to recall information or datadefines, lists, locates, recites, states

to understand the meaning of instruction and problemsconfirms, describes, discusses, explains, matches

to use a concept in a new situationapplies, builds, constructs, produces, reports

to separate concepts into partsanalyzes, categorizes, compares, debates, investigates

to build a pattern from diverse elementscomposes, designs, hypothesizes, implements, revises

to make judgementassesses, concludes, critiques, justifies, solves

this domain involves manual or physical skills one uses, divided into 7 subdivisions

to use senses to guide motor activitychooses, describes, identifies, selects

to be ready to actbegins, moves, proceeds, shows, states

to use trial and error, imitation to learn (early stage)copies, traces, follows, reproduces, replicates

to respond in a habitual way with movements performed with some confidence and proficiency (intermediate stage)assembles, calibrates, displays manipulates

to perform complex movement patterns skillfully (skillful stage) (same as mechanism but adverbs or adjectives are added to indicate proficiency)assembles quickly, calibrates accurately, displays proficiently, manipulates quickly and accurately

to use well-developed skills and be able to modify to fit special requirementsadapts, alters, changes, rearranges, revises

to create new movement patterns to fit a specific problem or situationarranges, builds, composes, constructs, initiates, originates

the third learning domain in bloom's taxonomy5 subdivisions in this domain

to be aware, to have selected attentionasks, follows, gives, locates, uses

to actively participateanswers, discusses, helps, tells

to determine worthdemonstrates, differentiates, explains, invites, joins

to organize values into prioritiesarranges, alters, modifies, relates, synthesizes

to control behavior using own value systemacts, discriminates, listens, modifies, verifies