BLOOM´S TAXONOMY

BLOOM´S TAXONOMY

The creator of this taxonomy was Benjamin Bloom with the purpose of providing teachers the levels of test questions that they usually use in a classroom. Those kind of questions evaluate students´ understanding when we they receive input in any case that could be activities that involve reading or listening the language. The levels could be divided by competences like:    

COMPETENCE	VERBS	QUESTIONS	ACTIVITIES
Knowledge	define, describe,tell	Can you tell me why?	Make a facts chart
Comprehension	Summarize, differ	What was the key?	Perform a play based on the reading
Application	Apply, illustrate	Can you apply the method	Dress a doll in national costume
Analysis	Analyse, explain	How was it similar to?	Conduct an investigation
Synthesis	Create, design	Can you see a solution?	Design a building
Evaluation	Assess, test, judge	Do you believe?	Write a report

Personally, I would regard the questions competences in order to develop activities. For instance, when my students need to complete a reading exercise so then I would evaluate their comprehension of the text by asking them previously the activity. What was the main idea of the text?. After that I would ask them to complete a task based on their reading comprehension.   

In short, as we could see for each competence useful verbs are provided as well as potential activities. Through the chart above I can easily identify the questions with their respective activities. It is useful to know how questions can work through their purposes.

See this pyramide that best describes Bloom´s taxonomy.

REFERENCE

Atherton, J. (2016). Bloom's taxonomy.Learningandteaching.info. Retrieved 29 January 2016, from http://www.learningandteaching.info/learnin

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learning/exams/blooms-taxonomy.html