Bloom's Taxonomy

Kept coming across this in my reading, so I thought I'd better look it up. It turned out to involve quite familiar material that I'd just never known by its proper name.

Benjamin Bloom (1913 - 1999)


His taxonomy (1956)

Learning is divided into three categories:

• cognitive (mental knowledge)


• affective (emotional attitude)


• psychomotor (physical skills)

This is at the top level of the taxonomy.
After that, being a taxonomy, it subdivides. The cognitive subdivisions are ranked from most basic to most advanced.

• knowledge


• comprehension


• application


• analysis


• synthesis


• evaluation

That's enough, I think - plenty of websites out there with the fine details!