Bloom's Taxonomy

Benjamin Bloom in an attempt to improve education thinking created his taxonomy with the help of his colleagues Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwoh. (Armstrong, 2016).

Bloom’s taxonomy is a list of verbs that are used to create objective to our classes. It helps to make education observable. We can use verbs such as: analyze, describe, organize and so on.

For example, if a teacher writes in a lesson plan the objectives like “At the end of the class students will be able to understand the Present Perfect Simple tense”, how can we observe understanding? Can we measure that? Probably not. Using Bloom’s taxonomy, the objective would be like “At the end of the class students will be able to describe life experiences by using the Present Perfect Simple tense”, which is measurable and observable.

In addition to the stated before, we can use Bloom’s taxonomy to create rubrics to assess students’ performance in productive skills such as: writing and speaking where we can evaluate accuracy and fluency in a non-subjective way.

As a conclusion, I can say that Bloom’s taxonomy is essential when planning our class and assessing our students to avoid subjectivity.

For further information, check out the links below:

Bloom’s Taxonomy

The verbs used by Bloom that we can use in our objectives for class.

http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/oie/documents/assesments/Blooms%20Level.pdf

Bloom's Taxonomy Video

This video created by the LSU Center of Academic Success goes over Bloom’s Taxonomy in an easy and understandable way.

References

Armstrong, P. (2016). Vanderbilt University. Obtenido de https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

Google Inc. (2015). Fresnostate. Obtenido de http://www.fresnostate.edu/academics/oie/documents/assesments/Blooms%20Level.pdf

Success, L. C. (Dirección). (2012). Bloom's Taxonomy [Video].