Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom's taxonomy is a catagorisation of lower and higher level thinking. Lower level thinking includes knowledge, comprehension, and application, while higher level thinking includes analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Each catagory has a list of assessment verbs that allow learning managers to create learning experience plans and determine the level of responses from learners.
For learning experience plans that intoduce and integrate new knowledge, lower level thinking would be applied. To evaluate learners' retention and comprehension, higher level thinking would be applied.
Bloom's learning framework can be applied to any unit topic in any way, and therefore there is no limit to the types of learning activities that can be designed to fulfill this framework.

This mind map is a basic demonstration of the elements of Bloom's taxonomy.







The following is a planning sheet that I obtained through a web search. It helps create links between lower and higher level thinking using the six catagories outlined by the taxonomy and also provides some of the assessment verbs to be used in the wording of the tasks, as well as possible end products to be achieved by the set task.

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy Planning Framework

Higher-order thinking		Actions	Products	Learning Activities
	Creating (Putting together ideas or elements to develop an original idea or engage in creative thinking).	Designing Constructing Planning Producing Inventing Devising Making	Film Story Project Plan New game Song Media product Advertisement Painting
	Evaluating (Judging the value of ideas, materials and methods by developing and applying standards and criteria).	Checking Hypothesising Critiquing Experimenting Judging Testing Detecting Monitoring	Debate Panel Report Evaluation Investigation Verdict Conclusion Persuasive speech
	Analysing (Breaking information down into its component elements).	Comparing Organising Deconstructing Attributing Outlining Structuring Integrating	Survey Database Mobile Abstract Report Graph Spreadsheet Checklist Chart Outline
Lower-order thinking	Applying (Using strategies, concepts, principles and theories in new situations).	Implementing Carrying out Using Executing	Illustration Simulation Sculpture Demonstration Presentation Interview Performance Diary Journal
	Understanding (Understanding of given information).	Interpreting Exemplifying Summarising Inferring Paraphrasing Classifying Comparing Explaining	Recitation Summary Collection Explanation Show and tell Example Quiz List Label Outline
	Remembering (Recall or recognition of specific information).	Recognising Listing Describing Identifying Retrieving Naming Locating Finding	Quiz Definition Fact Worksheet Test Label List Workbook Reproduction