As you start to shape your learning outcomes, many teachers and course designers find it very useful to use Bloom's Taxonomy as a guide. Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist who helped develop a classification scheme for learning objectives that reflects how to show mastery in different skills, knowledge areas, and abilities.
The result-Bloom's Taxonomy-is a series of six different categories of skills, which ascend from the most basic types to the most complex ones.
Revised in 2001, there are six levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, which ascend from the lowest to the highest cognitive skills as follows:
- Knowledge/remembering
- Comprehension/understanding
- Application/ applying
- Analysis/analyzing
- Evaluation/evaluating
