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M1U10 Taxonomy of Learning: Knowledge Categories
Recap
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Explored the nature of outcomes at cognitive levels including Apply, Analyse, Evaluate and Create.
The words representing the cognitive levels are to be used as defined in Revised-Bloom taxonomy.
Noted that “Critical Thinking” and “Problem Solving” involve combinations of several sub-processes
of the six cognitive levels.
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M1U10 Outcomes
Knowledge
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Knowledge is organized and structured by the learner in line with a cognitivist-constructivist
Categories of Knowledge
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General Categories
Factual
Conceptual
Procedural
Metacognitive
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Factual Knowledge
Consists of basic elements students must know if they are to be acquainted with the discipline or
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Knowledge of specific details (including descriptive and prescriptive data) and elements
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Humans shares about 98% of their genes with chimpanzees, 92% with mice, 76% with zebra fish and
51% with fruit flies.
Conceptual Knowledge
A concept denotes all of the entities, phenomena, and/or relations in a given category or class by
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using definitions.
Concepts are abstract in that they omit the differences of the things in their extension
Classical concepts are universal in that they apply equally to every thing in their extension.
Concepts are also the basic elements of propositions, much the same way a word is the basic
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semantic element of a sentence.
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knowledge of categories and classifications, and the relationships between and among them
schemas, mental models, or implicit or explicit theories
Schemas and models, and theories represent
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how a particular subject matter is organized and structured
how the different parts or bits of information are interconnected and interrelated in a more
systematic manner
how these parts function together
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Samples of Conceptual Knowledge
Force, acceleration, velocity, mass, voltage, current, temperature, entropy, stress, strain, gene,
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Theory of evolution
Newton’s laws of motion
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Cell Division
Laws of thermodynamics
Procedural Knowledge
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also includes knowledge of the criteria used to determine when to use a given procedure
is specific or germane to particular subject matters or academic disciplines
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Genome Sequencing
Active listening
Metacognitive Knowledge
is knowledge about cognition in general as well as awareness of and knowledge about one’s own
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cognition.
Elements of Metacognitive knowledge
Assessing the task at hand
Evaluating one’s own strengths and weaknesses
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Planning an appropriate approach
Applying strategies and monitoring performance
Reflecting and adjusting one’s own approach
Beliefs about intelligence and learning
Taxonomy of Cognitive Domain (General)
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When learning
You are not dealing with knowledge elements belonging to only one category.
One may be dealing with
Factual knowledge elements
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Exercises
List three factual knowledge elements from the courses you taught or familiar with.
List three concepts from the courses you taught or familiar with.
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List three principles from the courses you taught or familiar with.
List three procedures from the courses you taught or familiar with.
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M1U11
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Understand the nature of metacognitive knowledge.
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M1U11 Taxonomy of Learning: Metacognitive Knowledge
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Recap
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Defining what constitutes knowledge is still an unsettled question.
The four general categories of knowledge are considered to be one operationally convenient way of
classifying knowledge.
M1U11
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M1U11-1. Understand the nature and importance of Metacognitive Knowledge.
Metacognition
John Flavell, Developmental Psychologist, from Stanford University proposed the term “Metacognition” in
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Stephen Chew defines metacognition as
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“a person's awareness of his or her own level of knowledge and thought processes”
Metacognition is ‘thinking about one’s own thinking’
Metacognition represents our ability to assess our own skills, knowledge, or learning
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I am engaging in metacognition
If I become aware that I am not sure what the experimenter really wants me to do.
If I sense I should make a note of D because I may forget.
If I think to ask someone about E to see if I have it right.
Components of Metacognition
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Schraw G. (1998)
Knowledge about cognition
Regulation of cognition
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Metacognitive Knowledge
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I know/do not know what kind of information is most important to learn.
I am good/not good at organizing information.
I know/do not know what the teacher expects me to learn.
I am good/not good at remembering information.
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I have/do not have control over how well I learn.
I am a good/ not a good judge of how well I understand something.
Knowledge about how to implement learning procedures (e.g., strategies) and when to apply process in
various situations.
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I try/do not try to use strategies that have worked in the past.
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I have/do not have a specific purpose for each strategy I use.
I am aware/not aware of what strategies I use when I study.
I find myself using/not using helpful learning strategies automatically.
Application of knowledge with certain conditions presented.
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Examples
I learn/do not learn best when I know something about the topic.
I use/do not use different learning strategies depending on the situation.
I can/can not motivate myself to learn when I need to.
I use/do not use my intellectual strengths to compensate
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for my weaknesses.
I know/do not know when each strategy I use will be
most effective.
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Metacognitive Regulation/Control
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Going Meta
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Cognitive work is often invisible and cannot be directly observed.
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Poor metacognition is a big part of incompetence.
Students with poor metacognition skills will often
shorten their study time prematurely, thinking that they have mastered course material that they
barely know
are grossly overconfident in their level of understanding
make poor study decisions
Benefits of Metacognition
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underestimate or overestimate their performance in tests
Metacognitive practices help learners to monitor their own progress and take control of their
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learning.
Improving a learner’s metacognitive practices may compensate for any cognitive limitations.
Metacognitive practices can improve academic achievement across a range of ages, cognitive
abilities, and learning domains.
Metacognitive skills help students to transfer what they have learnt from one context to the next, or
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Instruction in Metacognition
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Make learning goals explicit and help students to plan strategies and ways of monitoring their
progress towards achieving these goals.
Encourage cooperative group work where set tasks require students to discuss their understanding,
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evaluate their own work and the work of the group, and reflect on their learning.
Use self-assessment in the classroom to promote metacognitive skills.
Try reciprocal teaching.
Use teacher- and peer-scaffolded interactions to support metacognitive development, and gradually
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encourage the transition from this external or supported monitoring and control to more internalized
metacognitive processes.
Focus on developing learners’ awareness of the strategies they use by encouraging the discussion of
strategies in class.
Support the learners’ autonomy by allowing them to make choices on the level of difficulty of certain
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tasks.
In conclusion
Resources
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increase the meaningfulness of students’ learning.”
Metacognition: https://www.cambridgeinternational.org/Images/272307-metacognition.pdf
“What happens in my university classes that helps me to learn?” Teacher Education Students’
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Instructional Metacognitive Knowledge
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol1/iss1/8/
Thinking About Thinking: Metacognition
https://www.learner.org/courses/learningclassroom/support/09_metacog.pdf
Exercises
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Describe two instances of inadequate metacognitive awareness from your personal experiences.
(maximum 250 words)
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Describe two instances of inadequate metacognitive regulation from your personal experiences.
(maximum 250 words)
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M1U12
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M1U12 Affective Domain
Recap
Understood the nature and importance of Metacognitive Knowledge.
M1U12: Outcomes
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M1U12-1. Understand the nature and importance of Affective Domain in learning.
Non-cognitive Factors
Many researchers firmly believe that non-cognitive factors and skills are equally or even more
important than cognitive aspects in educative processes.
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Grit, tenacity, curiosity, attitudes, self-concept, self-efficacy, anxiety coping strategies, motivation,
perseverance, confidence are among those frequently referred to as non-cognitive factors.
Many of these factors fall into the Affective Domain.
Affective Conflict
An individual growing in a dynamic, pluralistic, urban-industrial society encounters a fast changing
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Young persons are confronted by a variety of experiences which were not part of pre-adult
experience of elders.
Adults may become confused as they attempt to reconcile their own past inconsistencies and
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contradictions. Such confusions are easily communicated to the younger generation.
Such climate is not conducive to healthy psychological development.
Affective education has a significant role to resolve this problem.
Affective Domain
is most commonly associated with feelings and emotions
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is usually displayed in the form of positive or negative reaction to given events, objects, behaviours,
policies or situations
Affective behaviours are accompanied by varying degrees of feelings and reflect distinct “approach”
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or “avoidance” predispositions
Person’s past experience in interacting with environment shapes the nature and scope of affective
responses (Pierce and Gray, 1981)
An “affect” is any type, or degree of positive or negative feeling toward environmental
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Values are tested dispositional insights for or against particular objects, ideas or actions. When
some one values something, he/she assigns worth to it with reference to goals and purposes. Values
(enjoying, conserving, respecting, supporting etc.) serve as specific guides for consistent behaviour.
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Taxonomy of Affective Domain
Activities in all the three domain involve
– Sensory inputs
– Mental processing
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– Outputs
Pierce-Gray taxonomy recognizes this three-step process and classifies the Affective Domain in terms of
increments in cognition
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Perceive Validate
– Emotive Imprinting – Examining Values
– Response Setting – Accepting Values
React Affective Judge
– Emoting – Establishing Value Criteria
– Recognizing – Value Judging
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Controlling
Conform
Artificial Attitude
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Affective Create
Integrating Values
Inspirational Insight
– Consistent Attitude
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– Rationalized Attitude
Perceive
Listen to others’ points of view on ethical issues in genetics and biotechnology
Action Verbs: ask, choose, describe, follow, give, hold, identify, locate, name, point to, select, sit,
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biotechnology
Discusses with classmates whether or not he/she should continue to react in the same way to the
ethical issues in genetics and biotechnology
Assists teammates in resolving ethical issues in genetics and biotechnology
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Action Verbs: answer, assist, aid, comply, conform, discuss, greet, help, label, perform, practice,
present, read, recite, report, select, tell, write.
Conform
Justify the position he/she has taken regarding the use of genetic experimentation from an ethical
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point of view
Display commitment to using ethical standards when resolving ethical problems in genetics and
biotechnology
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Action Verbs: complete, demonstrate, differentiate, explain, follow, form, initiate, invite, join, justify,
propose, read, report, select, share, study, work.
Validate
Write a two-page paper explaining why he/she intends to maintain, revise, or discard his/her present
stance on the current genetic experimentation from an ethical point of view.
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Adhere to ethical standards in discussing issues in genetics and biotechnology
Action Verbs: explain, follow, justify, propose, read, report, select, share, study, work.
Affective Judge
Given multiple stands taken on ethical issues on genetics and biotechnology by different groups,
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develop criteria based on which one can judge the ethical issues.
Action Verbs: adhere, alter, arrange, combine, develop, complete, defend, explain, formulate,
generalize, identify, integrate, modify.
Affective Create
Prepare a report that attempts to present his/her own ethical standard on genetics and biotechnology
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supported by the assumptions made and data collected.
Action Verbs: act, create, influence, modify, perform, propose, revise, serve, solve, support.
Affective Goals
Behavioural Goals are attitudes and values related to rights, feelings, and property of others including
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the fellow students, teacher and the institution.
Procedural Goals are attitudes and values concerned mainly with demonstrating respect for critical
thinking, objectivity, evidence and logical analysis.
Substantive Goals are attitudes and values related to economic, social, political, ethical and aesthetic
questions and issues of importance to a pluralistic society.
Exercises
Give examples of affective outcomes at one or more affective levels on an issue from one of the
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M1U13: Psychomotor Domain
Recap
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M1U13 Outcomes
Psychomotor Domain
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Psychomotor learning also occurs in combination with the cognitive and affective domain learning.
It is demonstrated by physical skills which are acquired through practice.
Psychomotor Domain
Development of motor skills requires practice and is measured in terms of speed, precision, distance,
procedures, or techniques in execution.
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Examples: riding a bicycle, driving a car, playing a musical instrument, typing, acting, and running
The psychomotor activities become important and even dominant in courses in programs in Theatre,
Music, Painting, Sports, Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry, Emergency Medical Services etc.
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Taxonomies of Psychomotor Domain
– Sensory inputs
– Mental processing
– Outputs
Pierce-Gray taxonomy recognizes this three-step process and classifies the psychomotor domain in
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Pierce and Gray Taxonomy of PD
Psychomotor Perceive
Maneuvere
– Sensory Transmission
– Inspecting Skills
– Physio Functional Maintenance
– Selecting Skills
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Activate
Psychomotor Judge
– Physical Outputs
– Establishing Performance Criteria
– Mimicry
– Performance Judging
– Deliberate Modelling
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Psychomotor Create
Execute
– Combining Skills
– Task Execution
– Performance Insight
– Operational Execution
– Skilled Execution
Psychomotor Perceive
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The ability to use sensory cues to guide motor activity.
Readiness to act. It includes mental, physical, and emotional sets. These three sets are dispositions
that predetermine a person's response to different situations.
Example
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Estimate where a ball will land after it is thrown and then moving to the correct location to catch the ball.
Action Verbs: choose, describe, detect, differentiate, distinguish, identify, isolate, relate, select.
Activate
The early stages in learning a complex skill that includes imitation, and trial and error. Adequacy of
performance is achieved by practicing.
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Execute
Examples:
Operates a computer quickly and accurately.
Perform tha-thai-tham adavus.
Action Verbs: Perform skillfully, react fast, reproduce fast, respond fast
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Maneuvere
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Examples
Perform a task with a machine that it was not originally intended to do.
Link different movements together.
Prioritize equipment in order to carry fewer loads in my backpack.
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Action Verbs: adapt, alter, change, rearrange, reorganize, revise, vary, perform, link, prioritize
Psychomotor Judge
Action Verbs: Create, develop, perform, arrange, build, combine, compose, construct, design, initiate,
make, originate
Cognitive, affective and psychomotor activities are not independent of one another.
Higher levels of affective and psychomotor activities involve more and more cognitive activities.
Instruction needs to pay attention to these dependencies, especially to integrating affective and
psychomotor elements into cognitive activities in general courses.
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Taxonomy of Learning – General
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Exercises
Give at least one example from each one of the six relevant psychomotor levels from the courses you
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M1U14
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Understand the nature and importance of taxonomy tables in the achievement of alignment among
outcomes, assessment and instruction.
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M1U14: Taxonomy Tables
Recap
Understood the nature and importance of Psychomotor Domain in learning, and the role of all the
three domains in all learning activities.
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M1U14 Outcomes
M1U14-1: Understand the role of taxonomy tables in attainment of alignment among outcomes,
assessment and instruction.
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Revised-Bloom Taxonomy
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There are six cognitive processes and four general categories of knowledge.
A table with the six rows of cognitive processes and four categories of knowledge can serve as an
excellent tool to deal with several issues of teaching and learning.
Remember
Understand
Apply
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Analyze
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Evaluate
Create
A cell of the Taxonomy Table can be numbered by its cognitive process (1 to 6) and its knowledge
category (1 to 4).
The cell (4,3) represents Analyse-Procedural outcome, instructional activity and/or assessment.
As there is hierarchy among cognitive processes the cell (4,*) represents more complex (higher
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level) cognitive activity than the cell (3,*), but not necessarily more difficult activity.
The cell (4,*) implies all activities in (3,*), (2,*) and (1,*) cells.
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Elements of a Course
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Item)
Instructional activities to facilitate the learners attaining the course outcomes (IA)
Alignment
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Instruction should be in alignment with the assessment.
An element of a course can be tagged by its cognitive level (action verb) and knowledge categories
(can be more than one).
An element can be located in one or more cells of the taxonomy table based on tagging.
Alignment among the elements of a course means being in the same cell of the taxonomy table.
Cognitive
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Create
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Partial or No Alignment
Knowledge Categories
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Processes Factual Conceptual Procedural Metacognitive
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Analyze CO5
Evaluate
Create
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Alignment Issues
CO4 is in Apply-Procedure Cell, Instructional Activity is also in the cell (3,3), but AI4 items are either
in the cell (3,1) or (3,2). Absence of Assessment Items in the cell (3,3) is unacceptable.
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CO5 is in Analyse-Conceptual cell, but AI5 and IA5 are not in (4,2) cell at all. This is totally
unacceptable.
AI5 is also in the cell (1,1) is not directly related to “Analyze” cognitive process nor to “Conceptual”
category of knowledge. It is also not acceptable.
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Proper Alignment requires
Course Outcome and related Instructional Activities should be in complete alignment (locatable in the
same cells)
While some (small percentage) assessment items can be in cells representing cognitive levels lower
than that of CO, significant percentage of Assessment Items should be in the same cell as that of CO.
Taxonomy Table
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Can facilitate achieving a specified alignment among the three elements of a course and eliminate
chance occurrences.
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Can help in the design of well structured Test Item Banks, and consequently validity and reliability,
two important properties, of assessment can be achieved.
Can serve as an effective tool for organizing tutoring.
Level
Perceive
React
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Conform
Validate
Affective Judge
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Affective Create
Procedural affective goals can be considered to be at higher level than those of behavioral affective
goals.
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Substantive affective goals can be considered to be higher level than those of procedural affective
goals.
Attaining affective goals at higher levels can be that much more difficult.
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Exercises
Write one or more assessment items (questions and/or assignments) for all the cells relevant to the
course you taught or are familiar with.
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Understand how to write Outcomes of a Course within the framework of Revised-Bloom taxonomy
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