What Is Bloom's Taxonomy?
A hierarchical framework of six cognitive levels — Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create — used to classify learning objectives and assessments.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system for cognitive skills originally developed by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 and revised by Anderson and Krathwohl in 2001. The revised taxonomy includes six levels arranged from lower-order to higher-order thinking.
The six levels are: Remember (recall facts), Understand (explain ideas), Apply (use information in new situations), Analyze (break down information), Evaluate (make judgments), and Create (produce new work). Each level includes specific action verbs that teachers use to write measurable learning objectives.
Bloom's Taxonomy is one of the most widely used frameworks in education. Teachers use it to ensure their lessons target appropriate cognitive levels, write clear learning objectives, design assessments that measure specific thinking skills, and scaffold instruction from simple recall to complex creation.
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