Bloom's Taxonomy Flashcards

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Name the six levels of the ORIGINAL 1956 Bloom's taxonomy, lowest to highest.

Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation — six nouns.

Name the six levels of the REVISED 2001 (Anderson & Krathwohl) taxonomy, lowest to highest.

Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create — six verbs.

Which two levels changed places between the 1956 taxonomy and the 2001 revision?

Synthesis and Evaluation — Synthesis was renamed Create and moved to the top; Evaluate fell to level 5.

What is the highest level of Bloom's taxonomy in the 1956 edition?

Evaluation. In the 2001 revision it is NOT the top — Create is.

What is the highest level of Bloom's taxonomy in the 2001 revised edition?

Create. Its 1956 counterpart, Synthesis, sat one rung lower at level 5.

What grammatical change did the 2001 revision make to the six category names?

Nouns became verbs, so a category can be dropped straight into a learning objective.

1956 'Knowledge' — what is that level called in the 2001 revision?

Remember. The 1956 noun became a verb; the level stayed at the bottom.

1956 'Comprehension' — what is that level called in the 2001 revision, and why the change?

Understand — chosen because teachers say 'understand', a word the 1956 group had deliberately avoided.

1956 'Synthesis' — what is that level called in the 2001 revision, and where does it sit?

Create — and it moved up from level 5 to level 6, the top of the taxonomy.

Which three 1956 category names survived the 2001 revision, changing only into verb form?

Application → Apply, Analysis → Analyze, Evaluation → Evaluate.

Who initiated the 1956 Taxonomy, and at which university?

Benjamin S. Bloom, of the Board of Examinations at the University of Chicago, with measurement specialists.

Who led the 2001 revision of Bloom's taxonomy?

Lorin W. Anderson and David R. Krathwohl — Krathwohl was also a co-author of the 1956 original.

Is the second level of the revised taxonomy called 'Understand' or 'Understanding'?

Both circulate. The 2001 tables name the six categories with verbs and the sub-processes with gerunds.

What second dimension did the 2001 revision add that the 1956 taxonomy did not have?

The Knowledge dimension — objectives are now classified twice, by verb and by noun.

Name the four categories of the Knowledge dimension in the 2001 revision.

Factual, Conceptual, Procedural and Metacognitive knowledge.

Which Knowledge-dimension category was genuinely new in 2001, with no 1956 counterpart?

Metacognitive Knowledge — knowledge about cognition, including awareness of one's own.

In the 2001 Taxonomy Table, what does each of the two axes classify?

The verb of an objective goes to a cognitive process; the noun goes to a kind of knowledge.

Bloom's framework names three domains of educational objectives. What are they?

Cognitive (knowing), affective (attitudes and values), psychomotor (physical skill).

The six familiar levels of Bloom's taxonomy belong to which of the three domains?

The cognitive domain — the 1956 book is subtitled 'Handbook I: Cognitive Domain'.

Name the five levels of the affective domain, lowest to highest.

Receiving, Responding, Valuing, Organizing, Characterizing — Krathwohl's Handbook II, 1964

Did Bloom's group write the levels of the psychomotor domain?

No. Bloom's team left it unfilled; Simpson, Dave and Harrow each published rival psychomotor schemes.

Define the level 'Remember' as the 2001 revised taxonomy defines it.

Retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory.

Define the level 'Understand' as the 2001 revised taxonomy defines it.

Determining the meaning of instructional messages — oral, written or graphic.

Define the level 'Apply' as the 2001 revised taxonomy defines it.

Carrying out or using a procedure in a given situation.

Define the level 'Analyze' as the 2001 revised taxonomy defines it.

Breaking material into its parts and detecting how they relate to each other and to a whole.

Define the level 'Evaluate' as the 2001 revised taxonomy defines it.

Making judgments based on criteria and standards.

Define the level 'Create' as the 2001 revised taxonomy defines it.

Putting elements together to form a novel, coherent whole or an original product.

Which cognitive processes does the 2001 revision place under 'Remember'?

Recognizing and recalling — two processes.

Which cognitive processes does the 2001 revision place under 'Understand'?

Interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explaining — seven.

Which cognitive processes does the 2001 revision place under 'Apply'?

Executing and implementing — two processes.

Bloom's Taxonomy flashcards — questions people ask

How many cards are in the Bloom's Taxonomy flashcard deck?

The Bloom's Taxonomy deck on PuzzlePage has 44 cards. The first 30 are free to play and free to download with no account; the remaining 14 unlock for $2.99 as a one-time payment, or with the $11.99-a-month Study Pack, which covers every deck on the site. 44 cards. The taxonomy is a closed set — two editions of six levels, four knowledge categories, three domains and 19 named sub-processes — so the deck is sized by the framework, not padded. Only six verb cards are included, because verb lists are institutional aids that disagree with one another and most verbs cannot be pinned to one level honestly.

What is on the bloom's taxonomy flashcards?

Bloom's taxonomy in both editions — the 1956 nouns and the 2001 Anderson & Krathwohl verbs — with the levels, sub-processes and action verbs. Cards look like this: Name the six levels of the ORIGINAL 1956 Bloom's taxonomy, lowest to highest. → Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, Evaluation — six nouns.; Name the six levels of the REVISED 2001 (Anderson & Krathwohl) taxonomy, lowest to highest. → Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create — six verbs.. The deck is written for grades 9–12 and filed under english & reading.

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Yes. The first 30 cards of the Bloom's Taxonomy deck play free in any web browser at puzzlepage.app, with no account, no app and no card details. It works on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, laptop or classroom projector. Practice mode flips through the cards with nothing scored; quiz mode makes you answer each card before it flips, times the run and scores it.

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Yes. The Bloom's Taxonomy cards are available as a printable double-sided PDF to cut up, as well as playable in the browser. The first 30 cards are free to download; the full 44-card printable is included in the $11.99-a-month Study Pack.

How should I use the Bloom's Taxonomy deck to revise?

Start in practice mode and go through the Bloom's Taxonomy deck once without scoring, to find out which cards you already know — the deck is dealt in a different order every time you open it, so you are recalling the card rather than its position. Then switch to quiz mode, which times and scores the run and lets you re-run only the cards you missed. Use the "flip deck" control to swap which side is the question: recognising an answer is much easier than producing one, so a deck you find easy one way round is usually the harder and more useful drill the other way. Two or three short sessions across a week beat one long one, which is the whole reason flashcards work.

What grade level are the bloom's taxonomy flashcards for?

The Bloom's Taxonomy deck is written for grades 9–12. Because the cards are plain term-and-answer pairs, they are also used outside that band — by adults revising english & reading, and by teachers running them as a whole-class starter on a projector.