BLOOMS TAXONOMY
BLOOMS TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in the Cognitive Domain Taxonomy of objectives in the cognitive domain, given by Bloom and his associates (1956) tries to provide the most difficult but highly promising task of classifying Instructional objectives on a continuum from the simple to the relatively complex. He classified these objectives into six categories arranged from the lower to the higher level of functioning Knowledge: It is the lowest level in cognitive domain. It is the ability to recall and recognize previously learned material. It represents the lowest level of the objectives belonging to the cognitive domain and primary aims for the acquisition of the knowledge concerning: Specific facts, terminology, methods and processes and Generalised principles, theories and structures. The ...