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Session 3 Outline
HEC-Indigenous On-Campus Training
“Out-come Based Education • Theory of Bloom’s Taxonomy
(OBE) System” • Learning Domains (Cognitive, Psychomotor
and Affective domains) Learning levels

Dr. Farrukh Arif

Session-4
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Theory of Bloom’s Taxonomy Domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy

• Created in 1956 by educational psychologist Dr Benjamin
Bloom
• Promotes higher forms of thinking in education
• Three Domains of Learning
– Cognitive: mental skills (knowledge)
– Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas
(attitude or self)
– Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (skills)
• Bloom’s Taxonomy employs three distinct domains: the
cognitive, the affective, and the psychomotor, which are
described as follows:
• “the cognitive domain … includes those objectives [that]
deal with the recall or recognition of knowledge and the
development of intellectual abilities and skills.”
• “the affective domain … includes objectives [that] describe
changes in interest, attitudes, and values …”

• the psychomotor domain includes “the manipulative or

motor-skill area.

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Bloom’s Taxonomy and Human Development Cognitive Domain

Source: YAHYA BIN SAMIAN, Outcome Based Education (Assessment and CQI) UTM

Affective Domain
Psychomotor Domain
Feeling, Emotions, Attitude, Beliefs

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Taxonomy in the OBE Approach Domains-to-Attributes Relationship

PLOS Cognitive Psychomotor Affective

Engineering Knowledge X
Problem Analysis X
Design/Development of Solutions X
Investigation X X
Modern Tool Usage X
The Engineer and Society X
Environment and Sustainability X
Ethics X
Individual and Teamwork X
Communication X
Project Management X
Lifelong Learning X

lower order Intermediate Higher order 11 lower order Intermediate Higher order 12

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Exercise 5-Identification of Taxonomy Level

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Exercise 6-Development of Questions in Selected Course

Outline

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