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Benjamin Samuel Bloom

An educational psychologist known for creating Bloom's Taxonomy and contributing to early childhood education and evaluation methods.

Bloom's Taxonomy

A framework developed in 1956 to promote higher-order thinking in education, categorizing learning objectives into cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.

Cognitive Domain

The domain of Bloom's Taxonomy that involves mental skills and intellectual abilities, including knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.

Psychomotor Domain

The domain that focuses on physical skills and coordination, encompassing levels such as perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaptation, and origination.

Affective Domain

The domain that deals with emotions, values, and attitudes, consisting of levels such as receiving phenomena, responding to phenomena, valuing, organizing, and internalizing values.

Knowledge Level

The first level of the cognitive domain, involving the recall or recognition of specific facts and concepts.

Comprehension Level

The second level of the cognitive domain, focusing on understanding and interpreting information.

Application Level

The third level of the cognitive domain, where learners use knowledge in new situations.

Analysis Level

The fourth level of the cognitive domain, involving breaking down information into parts and understanding its structure.

Synthesis Level

The fifth level of the cognitive domain, where learners combine elements to form a new whole.

Evaluation Level

The sixth and highest level of the cognitive domain, involving making judgments based on criteria and standards.

Lorin Anderson

A former student of Bloom who, along with David Krathwohl, revised Bloom's Taxonomy in the mid-1990s.

MESA Program

The Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis program developed by Benjamin Bloom at the University of Chicago.

Head Start Program

An early childhood education program in the United States that was influenced by Bloom's research on children and learning.

Hierarchical Link

A concept critiqued in Bloom's Taxonomy, questioning whether the cognitive levels must be mastered sequentially.