We already said that the knowledge is under cognitive domain
of blooms taxonomy of learning skills
Now we can look into the taxonomy in deatail
BLOOM’S TAXONOMY
Bloom's taxonomy is a classification of learning objectives within
education proposed in 1956 by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom, who
also edited the first volume of the standard text, Taxonomy of educational objectives:
the classification of educational goals (1956). Although named after Bloom, the
publication followed a series of conferences from 1949 to 1953, which were
designed to improve communication between educators on the design of curricula
and examinations. At this
meeting, interest was expressed in a theoretical framework which could be used
to facilitate communication among examiners. This group felt that such a
framework could do much to promote the exchange of test materials and ideas
about testing. In addition, it could be helpful in stimulating research on
examining and on the relations between examining and education. After
considerable discussion, there was agreement that such a theoretical framework
might best be obtained through a system of classifying the goals of the
educational process, since educational objectives provide the basis for
building curricula and tests and represent the starting point for much of our
educational research."
It refers to a classification of
the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives).
Bloom's taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains": Cognitive, Affecive, and Phsycomotor (sometimes loosely described asknowing/head, feeling/heart and doing/hands respectively). Within the domains,
learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite
knowledge and skills at lower levels. A
goal of Bloom's taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three
domains, creating a more holistic form of
education.
A revised version of the taxonomy
was created in 2000.
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