{"id":8095,"date":"2024-07-10T18:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.extramarks.com\/blogs\/?p=8095"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:03:02","slug":"blooms-taxonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.extramarks.com\/blogs\/schools\/blooms-taxonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy 101"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taxonomy is the science of classifying, naming, and organising based on characteristics and hierarchy. Traditionally used for the natural world, when applied to education it can help create a tiered approach to the teaching-learning process<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Initially introduced in 1956, Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy was the work of Benjamin Bloom (an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago) and collaborators Englehart, Frust, Hill, and Krathwohl. Titled the Taxonomy of Educational Concepts, it consisted of a framework that categorised hierarchical educational goals, starting from the basic, and leading up to the application. Today Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy is widely used for effective instruction design across K-12 levels. It provides educators with a shared framework to set tiered teaching goals and assess learning outcomes.<\/p>\n

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy?<\/h2>\n

Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy is a hierarchical classification of learning outcomes<\/a><\/span> and skills, that helps educators set progressive learning goals for their students starting from lower-order processing, and going up to higher-order cognitive thinking.<\/p>\n

Originally classified into stages of Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation, the terminology of the 6 levels was updated in 2001 by Krathwohl and Anderson for ease of understanding and application. Known as the Pyramid of Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy it now includes nomenclature of Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating. Each stage depends on developing expertise in the preceding one and is built on the foundation of the previous stages.<\/p>\n

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Three Domains of Bloom’s Taxonomy<\/h2>\n

Depending on the learning objective Bloom\u2019s Taxonomy classifies the learning activity into three key domains. The Cognitive Domain deals with developing the intellect, the Affective Domain deals with nurturing the emotional aspects, values and attitudes, and the Psychomotor Domain is concerned with developing motor skills. The three domains put down corresponding hierarchical stages required to develop higher-order skills.<\/p>\n