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A Term Paper on Comparison of Original and Revised Blooms Taxonomy of Learning

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements

For the Subject Assessment of Learning 2

Submitted to/Prepared to:

ANGELICA G. ORDANZA-CORTEZ, Ed.D.
Subject Professor

Submitted by/Prepared by:

WENDY A. PONCE

Introduction
In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who
developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning.
Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into learning domains, with the
understanding that higher levels of learning are dependent on having attained prerequisite
knowledge and skills at lower levels.
Blooms Taxonomy divides the way people learn into three domains. One of these
is the cognitive domain, which emphasizes intellectual outcomes. This domain further
divides into categories, which are arranged progressively from the lowest level of
thinking, simple, recall, to the highest, evaluating information.
"Taxonomy simply means classification, so the well-known taxonomy of
learning objectives is an attempt (within the behavioural paradigm) to classify forms and
levels of learning. It identifies three domains of learning (see below), each of which is
organized as a series of levels or pre-requisites. It is suggested that one cannot effectively
or ought not try to address higher levels until those below them have been covered (it is
thus effectively serial in structure). As well as providing a basic sequential model for
dealing with topics in the curriculum, it also suggests a way of categorizing levels of
learning, in terms of the expected ceiling for a given program. Thus in the Cognitive
domain, training for technicians may cover knowledge, comprehension and application,
but not concern itself with analysis and above, whereas full professional training may be
expected to include and synthesis and evaluation as well.
Body/Facts
With educational taxonomy, learning is classified into three domains namely: (1)
cognitive, (2) affective, and (3) psychomotor or behavioral. Benjamin Bloom (1956) led
his group in coming up with the list of instructional objectives in the cognitive domain.
The six levels progress from simple to more complex levels of thinking the last three
being reffered to as Higher-Order Thinking Skills or HOT one of the facts about the
HOT is You can improve your thinking skills by understanding the processes involved in
thinking, HOT does not include memorization, We begin teaching with facts.
The goal of an educator using Bloom's taxonomy is to encourage higher-order
thought in their students by building up from lower-level cognitive skills. Behavioral
and cognitive learning objectives are given to highlight how Bloom's taxonomy can be
incorporated into larger-scale educational goals or guidelines.
Bloom believed that education focus on mastery of subjects and the promotion
of higher forms of thinking, rather than a utilitarian approach to simply transferring facts
the lowest level of training.

Conclusion
In my opinion about the comparison of original and revised of Blooms
Taxonomy. The Original Blooms Taxonomy has emphasize the simple recalling, basic
understanding, applying or using knowledge in new situation, break things down, putting
parts together in a new form and judging, evaluating, and interprets the information. Also
in original Blooms Taxonomy they used nouns to describe the levels of thinking.
In the revision of Blooms Taxonomy. Generating new ideas, justifying of a
decision, using another information in another familiar situation, explaining the ideas of
concepts and recalling information.
But I think this Taxonomy can help to us to provide effective different strategies
that will be able to indicate the attitudes, awareness and abilities of the students. By using
of taxonomy it will serve as a guide how to be an effective and efficient when it do by
creating objectives.
References
d118.org/district/curriculum/initiatives/Blooms-taxonomy.pdf
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/bloomtax.htm
Principles of Teaching 1 Book. Author Brenda B. Corpuz, Ph.D., Gloria Salandanan
Ph.D.
https://cole2.uconline.edu/courses/46295/pages/introduction-to-blooms-taxonomy
http://www.cdl.org/resourcelibrary/articles/higherorderthinking.php
http://www.fctl.ucf.edu/TeachingAndLearningResources/CourseDesign/BloomsTaxonom
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