As an education student, one is likely very familiar with the name and work of Benjamin Bloom. His work soon became known as Bloom’s Taxonomy. Bloom took students’ levels of thinking and broke them into six groups. Along with each category, Bloom addresses words that can be used to accomplish each level. Bloom’s levels of thinking are divided into the following six groups: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. The scale becomes more complicated as you work from knowledge to evaluation. The most basic level created by Bloom is knowledge. During this phase a student must recall or give … Continue reading →