Bloom’s Taxonomy

Revised Version

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Instructional Activities(REVISED VERSION – PAGE 52)

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Remember

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Remember

Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory.

Key verbs: count, define, draw, fill in the blank, identify, indicate, label, list, locate, match, memorize, name, point, quote, read, recall, recite, recognize, record, repeat, spell, state, tabulate, tell, trace, underline, write

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Understand

Construct meaning from messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication.

Key verbs: classify, compute, convert, define, describe, differentiate, discuss, distinguish, estimate, explain, extrapolate, illustrate, interpret, paraphrase, predict, put in order, recognize, rephrase, restate, retell in your own words, rewrite, summarize, trace, translate

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Apply

Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation.

Key verbs: apply, calculate, classify, compute, conclude, construct, demonstrate, determine, develop, draw, employ, examine, experiment with, find out, give an example, illustrate, make, operate, organize, practice, relate, restructure, show, solve, state a rule or principle

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Analyze

Break material into its parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose.

Key verbs: categorize, classify, compare, contrast, debate, deduct, detect, determine the factors, diagnose, diagram, differentiate, dissect, distinguish, examine, group, infer, order, relate, separate, specify, summarize, transform

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Evaluate

Make judgments based on criteria and standards.

Key verbs: change, combine, compose, construct, debate, defend, disprove, design, find an unusual way, formulate, generate, integrate, invent, modify, originate, plan, predict, prescribe, pretend, produce, propose, rank, rearrange, reconstruct, reorganize, revise, suggest, suppose, visualize, write

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Create

Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganize them into a NEW pattern or structure.

Key verbs: adapt, build, change, compile, compose, construct, create, elaborate, hypothesize, imagine, invent, originate, transform.

Engaged Students

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Remember

Strategically Compliant Students

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Recall & sometimes remember

Ritually Compliant Students

Create

Evaluate

Analyze

Apply

Understand

Recall short term

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Retreatists and Rebels

• Learn little

• Develop negative attitudes toward learning