3 DOMAINS OF

LEARNING

SCIENCE
 DOMAINS
1. UNDERSTANDING AND APPLYING SCIENTIFIC
KNOWLEDGE
2. PERFORMING SCIENTIFIC PROCESSES AND

SKILLS
3. DEVELOPING AND DEMONSTRATING SCIENTIFIC

ATTITUDES AND VALUES.

THE COGNITIVE DOMAIN OF LEARNING
-INVOLVES THINKING ABOUT FACTS,

TERMS, CONCEPTS, IDEAS,

RELATIONSHIPS, PATTERNS,

CONCLUSIONS, ETC. A COMMON

TAXONOMY UTILIZED TO DOCUMENT

LEARNING WITHIN THE COGNITIVE

DOMAIN IS BLOOM'S TAXONOMY

BENJAMIN S. BLOOM ANDERSON AND KRATHWOHL
EDUCATION
THE 6

LEVELS OF

COGNITIVE

DOMAIN
Factual Knowledge
The basic elements a student must know to be

acquainted with a discipline or solve problems in it.

Conceptual Knowledge
The interrelationships among the basic elements

THE

within a larger structure that enable them to

function together.
Procedural Knowledge
KNOWLEDGE

How to do something, methods of inquiry, and

criteria for using skills, algorithms, techniques, and

DIMENSIONS
methods.
Metacognitive Knowledge
Knowledge of cognition in general as well as

awareness and knowledge of one’s own cognition

 SUBCATEGORIES OF FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE

-knowledge of terminology
-knowledge of specific details
SUBCATEGORIES OF CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE
-knowledge of classification and categories
-knowledge of principles and generalization
-knowledge of theories, models and structures

 SUBCATEGORIES OF PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE

-knowledge of subject-specific skills and algorithms
-subject specific techniques and methods
-criteria for determining when to use appropriate

procedures
SUBCATEGORIES OF METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE
-strategic knowledge
-knowledge of cognitive skills
-self knowledge
THE PSYCHOMOTOR

DOMAIN
Psychomotor objectives are those

specific to discreet physical functions,

reflex actions and interpretive

movements.

it is concerned with the physically

encoding of information, with

movement and/or with activities

where the gross and fine muscles are

used for expressing or interpreting

information or concepts.
 THE SEVEN CATEGORIES UNDER THIS PSYCHOMOTOR

DOMAIN INCLUDE:

1. Perception: the ability to apply sensory

information to motor activity

2. Set: the readiness to act
3. Guided Response: the ability to imitate a

displayed behavior or to utilize trial and error

4. Mechanism: the ability to convert learned

responses int habitual actions with proficiency

and confidence
 THE SEVEN CATEGORIES UNDER THIS PSYCHOMOTOR

DOMAIN INCLUDE:

5. Complex Overt Response: the ability to skillfully

perform complex patterns of actions

6. Adaptation: the ability to modify learned skills to

meet special events

7. Origination: creating new movement patterns for

a specific situation
 developing and

demonstrating

scientific attitudes and

values (affective

domain)
Affective domain
describes learning objectives that emphasize a feeling tone,

an emotion, or a degree of acceptance or rejection. Affective

objectives vary from simple attention to selected

phenomena to complex but internally consistent qualities of

character and conscience. We found a large number of such

objectives in the literature expressed as interests, attitudes,

appreciations, values, and emotional sets or biases.

Levels of Affective Domain
1. Receiving
being aware of or sensitive to the existence of certain ideas, material, or

phenomena and being willing to tolerate them.

2. Responding
committed in some small measure to the ideas, materials, or phenomena

involved by actively responding to them.

3. Valuing
willing to be perceived by others as valuing certain ideas, materials, or

phenomena.
4. Organization
to relate the value to those already held and bring it into a harmonious and

internally consistent philosophy.

5. Characterization by value or value set
to act consistently by the values, he or she has internalized.
 Scientific Attitude and Values
Honesty
Open-mindedness
Creative and critical thinker
Curiosity
Risk taker, confident and persistent
Objectivity
Precision
Collaboration and readiness to reach a consensus
Skepticism
Humility
Ability to accept failure