BASIC PROCESS SKILLS:

CLASSIFYING
Learning Competency
◦Use appropriate tools
in measuring objects.
Objectives
◦Define classification.
◦Enumerate the stages of
classification.
◦Differentiate by comparing and
contrasting.
What is classifying?
◦Classifying is sorting or grouping of
objects into a system, category, or
criteria. We classify using the
characteristics present in an
object.
Why do we classify?
◦Classifying makes things
easier to know the
similarities and
differences between
many things.
Classification is the foundation for
the creation of all concepts.
Classification is the classification
of the ordering of phenomena
according to the scheme in place.
Objects and incidents can be
categorized on the basis of
observation.
Classification keys are used to
position objects inside the
scheme as well as to retrieve
information from the scheme.
 3 Stages of Classification
◦1. Single stage classification
◦ it involves the splitting of a group
of objects into two or more subsets
on the basis of at least one
measurable or observable element or
property .
3 Stages of Classification

◦Binary classification, a
part of single-stage
classification is sorting
the objects into 2 groups.
◦2. Multi-stage classification
◦ sets are sorted into
subsets and each of these
subsets is sorted again and
again.
◦3. Serial ordering classification
◦ objects are put in
order by the degree to which
they have a certain property.
Why is classification important?
◦Classification is the basis for all
concept formation.
◦Ta make us easier to identify the
similarities and differences of
objects/things.
COMPARING (similarities)
◦It tells what is the
same about two or
more things.
CONTRASTING (differences)

◦tell what is the

difference between
two or more things.
Compare and contrast are the
rhetorical style that discusses
similarities and differences
between two or more things,
ideas, objects, places, etc.
 This rhetorical style is one
that you will usually use as a
complete essay to make some
sort of comparison to better
illustrate a point.