Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive and Affective Processes

We need to introduce rigor in the design and evaluations of our own lesson plans. Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy of learning domains offers a useful and powerful heuristic to gauge how "deep" and "wide" our teaching/learning objectives are, and to modify our lesson objectives, questioning techniques, and assessments accordingly.

More on Bloom:
http://www.businessballs.com/bloomstaxonomyoflearningdomains.htm

On the Affective Domain, see this tutorial:
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/ViewObject.aspx?ID=OTT402

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