BLOOMS

TAXONOMY
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
- call for outcomes of mental activity such
as memorizing, reading problem solving,
analyzing, synthesizing and drawing
conclusions.
Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy
Bloom identified six levels within the cognitive
domain from simple recall of facts as the lowest
level through increasingly more complex and
abstract mental level, to the highest level that can
be classified as evaluation. Verb samples for
stating specific learning outcomes that represent
intellectual activity on each level are presented
here.
1. Knowledge
- recognizes students’ ability to use rote
memorization and recall facts.
Verb Samples: define, name, recognize, repeat,
list, label, memorize, select, cite, reproduce,
state
Test questions focus on the identification and
recall of information.
2. Comprehension
- involves students’ activity to read subject
matter, extrapolate and interpret important
information and put other ideas to their own
words.
Verb Samples: describe, classify, explain,
discuss, express, identify, translate, restate,
review, give examples, interpret, summarize.
Test questions should focus on the use of facts,
rules and principles.
3. Application
- students take new concept and apply
the to another situation.
Verb Samples: construct, arrange, compute,
discover, show, relate, produce, prepare,
predict, solve, dramatize, interpret.
Test questions focus on applying facts or
principles.
4. Analysis
- students have the ability to take new
information and break it down into parts to
differentiate between them.
Verb Samples: determine, differentiate,
distinguish, estimate, point out, discriminate,
categorize, compare, criticize, examine,
experiment, debate.
Test questions focus on separation of a whole
into components and parts.
5. Synthesis
- creating a pattern where one did not
previously exist.
Verb Samples: assemble, compose, create,
formulate, plan, prepare, design, reorganize,
rewrite, rearrange, propose, set up.
Test questions focus on combining ideas to form
a new whole.
6. Evaluation
- involves students’ ability to look at someone
else’s ideas or principles and see the worth of the work
and the value of the conclusion.
Verb Samples: determine, differentiate, distinguish,
estimate, point out, discriminate, categorize, compare,
criticize, examine, experiment, debate.
Test questions focus on developing opinions,
judgment or decisions.