Journal Entry Eight: Taxonomy

Bloom's Taxonomy

Bloom’s taxonomy is comprised of 6 categories: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The taxonomy is a classification scheme of intellectual behavior and was developed by Benjamin Bloom. Bloom identified six levels of cognitive learning, from the simple recall of facts (Knowledge), as the lowest level, through the increasingly more complex levels of Understanding, Application, Analysis, Synthesis,and Evaluation.
Module Five presented us with the opportunity to create a simplified version of Bloom’s taxonomy to determine learning objectives that are associated with assessment. After reading an assigned case study, we each had to place the assessment activities from that case study in a table and match 3-4 assessment activities to one of the six categories of Bloom’s taxonomy.

Bloom categories

Learning objective verbs
Activity

Knowledge
(recall, list, define, identify, collect, label)
Define
Define basic journalism terms.

Comprehension
(summarize, describe interpret, predict, discuss)
Identify
Identify news items that may be propaganda.

Application
(apply, demonstrate, illustrate, classify, experiment, discover)
Explore
Explore the role of the journalist in obtaining and telling the news.

Analysis
(analyze, classify, connect, explain, infer)
Understand
A field trip would allow students to view a film that appears to be slanted, such as Fahrenheit 9/11, and discuss the film in conjunction with understanding libel, privacy, ethics and taste.

Synthesis
(combine, integrate, plan, create, design, formulate)
Compose
Make oral presentations for each academic area of study that are designed to persuade, inform or describe.

Evaluation
(assess, recommend, convince, compare, conclude, summarize)
Convince
Students will write a persuasive essay supporting or rebutting her theories.

The final project looms on the horizon. It is due by November 9th and was designed to extend the Jigsaw project. As such,it is intended to be a group project. Updates will be provided on a weekly basis.


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