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Ponte Academic Journal
Dec 2020, Volume 76, Issue 12

EVALUATION OF THE BLOOM’S TAXONOMY FOR USE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Author(s): Jeremiah Madzimure

J. Ponte - Dec 2020 - Volume 76 - Issue 12
doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2020.12.16



Abstract:
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the Bloom’s Taxonomy by reflecting on critical viewpoints on the model as well as to explain how an educator use them in the classroom. Bloom’s Taxonomy is a model of learning developed by Benjamin Bloom in 1956 and later modified in 2001 by Anderson (his former student). The aims of the model are to make students aware of what there were learning as well as to categorise goals of any curriculum in terms of cognitive skills. Bloom’s Taxonomy represents the process of learning through its six levels: remember, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate and create. As a teacher or lecturer, this is a useful tool one can use to set questions and design objectives aim at improving student’s cognitive skills and abilities since this framework can develop learning from simple to complex. Over and above, the teacher can approach learning from all domains.
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