Bloom's Taxonomy is a hierarchy of measurable actions to help describe and classify observable knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors, and abilities. The theory is based on the idea that there are levels of observable actions that indicate something is happening in the brain (cognitive activity.) By creating learning outcomes using measurable verbs, you indicate explicitly what the student must do to demonstrate learning.
In the revised taxonomy, knowledge is at the basis of these six cognitive processes, but its authors created a separate taxonomy of the types of knowledge used in cognition:
This guide was created based on the LibGuides of Several Universities including Bronx Community College, Davenport University, College of Wooster, and Johns Hopkins University
