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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.
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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.
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