Assessment taxonomy table template Review the course objectives and activities from your own online course.

Then decide which objectives and activities belong in which Bloom category. This type of analysis will help you, not only develop your course assessment plans, but will also help you decide which assessment activities are most valuable. This website provides a simple explanation of Blooms categories:

http://www.coun.uvic.ca/learn/program/hndouts/bloom.html
Bloom categories Learning objective verbs Recognize Define Identify Collect Model Discuss Interpret Demonstrate Discover Experiment Analyze Calculate Connect Activity PowerPoint Graph Ws. 1 & 2 Moving Man Vocabulary Activity 1 Activity 2 Lab experiment on freely falling bodies Duplicate motion given motion diagram on board in front of a motion detector Activity 1 Activity 1 Activity 2 * In each problem in the activities above, students will connect them to the corresponding graph that represents the motion Given a velocity time graph, generate the corresponding velocity time and acceleration time graphs. Describe the type of motion the object possesses based on your results Given 15 velocity time graphs, 15 position time graphs, and 3 acceleration time graphs. Match each of them with their counterpart. Justify each decision with a sentence or two.

Knowledge (recall, list, define, identify, collect, label) Comprehension (summarize, describe interpret, predict, discuss) Application (apply, demonstrate, illustrate, classify, experiment, discover) Analysis (analyze, classify, connect, explain, infer)

Synthesis (combine, integrate, plan, create, design, formulate)

Create Derive

Evaluation (assess, recommend, convince, compare, conclude, summarize)

Summarize Compare and Contrast