Benjamin S.

Bloom’s

Revised Taxonomy
What is Blooms Taxonomy ?
⮚
Bloom’s taxonomy is a
classification of thinking
organized by levels of
complexity.
Bloom’s Taxonomy (1956)
What is Revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy?
⮚It provides the measurement tool for
thinking

The changes occur in three broad categories:

▪ Terminologies
▪ Structure
▪ emphasis
Changes in Terms
▪ Noun to verb

Knowledge remembering
Comprehension understanding
Syntesis creating
Level 1:Remembering
▪ The learner is able to recall ,restate
and remember learned information.
Questions starting from what
where,how and why whose answer can
be retrieved ,recognized and recall are
fall under remembering.
Level 2:
Understanding(comprehensi
on)

▪ The learning grasp the

meaning of the information by
interpreting and translating
what has been learned.
 Level 3:Applying

▪ The learner makes use of the

acquired knowledge,facts
techniques and rules in a
different way
Level 4:Analyzing
▪ The learner breaks the learned
information into its parts determining
how the parts relate to interrelate to
one another to an overall structure or
purpose through:
⮚Differentiating
⮚Organizing
⮚attributing
Level 5:Evaluating

▪ The learner makes decision

based on reflection,criticism,
assesment through checking
and critiquing
Level 6:Creating

▪ The learners creates new

ideas and information using
what have previously
learned.
Structural Changes
▪ Blooms original cognitive taxonomy
was one dimentional consisting of
⮚ Factual
⮚ Conceptual
⮚ Procedural
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy
▪ Takes the form of two dimentional table
Factual Knowledge

▪ Refers to essential
facts,termionology, details or
elements dtudents must know
Conceptual Knowledge
▪ Is a knowledge of classification,
principles,generalizations,theories,mod
els or structure pertinent to a particular
disciplinary area
Procedural Knowledge
▪ refers to information or knowledge
that helps students to do someting
specific to a discipline subject,area of
study
Meta-cognitive Knowledge
▪ is a strategic or reflective knowledge
about how to go solving
problems,cognitive task to include
contextual andconditional knowledge and
knowledge of self