Knowledge Categories: Behavioral Verbs:

Remembering identify, retrieve, recognize, duplicate, list,

The learner can recall information and retrieve relevant knowledge from memorize, repeat, describe, reproduce
long-term memory
Understanding interpret, exemplify, classify, summarize,
The learner can construct meaning from oral, written and graphic infer, compare, explain, paraphrase, discuss
messages
Skills Applying execute, implement, demonstrate,
The learner can use information to undertake a procedure in familiar dramatize, interpret, solve, use, illustrate,
situations or in a new way convert, discover
Analyzing differentiate, distinguish, compare, contrast,
The learner can distinguish between parts and determine how they organize, outline, attribute, deconstruct
relate to one another, and to the overall structure and purpose
Evaluating coordinate, measure, detect, defend, judge,
The learner can make judgments and justify decisions argue, debate, describe, critique, appraise,
evaluate
Creating generate, hypothesize, plan, design, develop,
The learner can put elements together to form a functional whole, produce, construct, formulate, assemble,
create a new product or point of view devise

Attitude Categories:
1. Receiving Phenomena - Awareness, willingness to hear, selected attention
Behavioral Verbs: ask, choose, describe, erect, follow, give, hold, identify, locate, name, point to, reply, select, sit, Study,
use
2. Responding to Phenomena - Active participation on the part of the learners. Attends and reacts to a particular
phenomenon. Learning outcomes may emphasize compliance in responding, willingness to respond, or satisfaction in
responding (motivation).
Behavioral Verbs: aid, answer, assist, comply, conform, discuss, greet, help, label, perform, practice, present, read,
recite, report, select, tell, write
3. Valuing - Attaches to a particular object, phenomenon, or behavior. This ranges from simple acceptance to the more
complex state of commitment. Valuing is based on the internalization of a set of specified values, while clues to these
values are expressed in the learner's overt behavior and are often identifiable.
Behavioral Verbs: work, complete, demonstrate, differentiate, explain, follow, form, initiate, invite, join, justify,
propose, read, report, select, share, study
4. Organization - Organizes values into priorities by contrasting different values, resolving conflicts between them, and
creating a unique value system. The emphasis is on comparing, relating, and synthesizing values.
Behavioral Verbs: adhere, alter, arrange, combine, compare, complete, defend, explain, formulate, generalize, identify,
integrate, modify, order, organize, prepare, relate, synthesize
5. Internalizing values - (Characterization): Has a value system that controls their behavior. The behavior is pervasive,
consistent, predictable, and most importantly, characteristic of the learner. Instructional objectives are concerned with
the student's general patterns of adjustment (personal, social, emotional).
Behavioral Verbs: act, discriminate, display, influence, listen, modify, perform, practice, propose, qualify, question,
revise, serve, solve, verify
Values Categories:
1. Receiving Phenomena - Awareness, willingness to hear, selected attention
Behavioral Verbs: ask, choose, describe, erect, follow, give, hold, identify, locate, name, point to, reply, select, sit, Study,
use
2. Responding to Phenomena - Active participation on the part of the learners. Attends and reacts to a particular
phenomenon. Learning outcomes may emphasize compliance in responding, willingness to respond, or satisfaction in
responding (motivation).
Behavioral Verbs: aid, answer, assist, comply, conform, discuss, greet, help, label, perform, practice, present, read,
recite, report, select, tell, write
3. Valuing - Attaches to a particular object, phenomenon, or behavior. This ranges from simple acceptance to the more
complex state of commitment. Valuing is based on the internalization of a set of specified values, while clues to these
values are expressed in the learner's overt behavior and are often identifiable.
Behavioral Verbs: work, complete, demonstrate, differentiate, explain, follow, form, initiate, invite, join, justify,
propose, read, report, select, share, study
4. Organization - Organizes values into priorities by contrasting different values, resolving conflicts between them, and
creating a unique value system. The emphasis is on comparing, relating, and synthesizing values.
Behavioral Verbs: adhere, alter, arrange, combine, compare, complete, defend, explain, formulate, generalize, identify,
integrate, modify, order, organize, prepare, relate, synthesize
5. Internalizing values - (Characterization): Has a value system that controls their behavior. The behavior is pervasive,
consistent, predictable, and most importantly, characteristic of the learner. Instructional objectives are concerned with
the student's general patterns of adjustment (personal, social, emotional).
Behavioral Verbs: act, discriminate, display, influence, listen, modify, perform, practice, propose, qualify, question,
revise, serve, solve, verify