New Blooms Taxonomy Plus Digital

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Blooms Taxonomy: Sample Task Prompts and Digital Tools

Blooms taxonomy was first developed in the 1950s and revised in the 1990s as a way to classify different

cognitive tasks.Rememberingis at the lower end of the hierarchy, with complexity building through

understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating, to culminate in creating. These categories can be useful

tools in planning effective instruction that challenges students to move from basic skills such as memorization to

higher order cognitive tasks such as composing, designing, or integrating information.

Remembering: The student must recall or recognize information: facts, definitions, generalizations, values,and skills.

Acquire

Cluster

Define

Describe (from memory)

Identify

List

Match

Name/Label

Observe

Outline/Format Given

Read

Recall

Repeat

Recognize

Record

Recount

Reproduce

Sort

Write

Examples:

Objective: Participants will be able to define five leadership styles.

Test question: Listthe five leadership styles covered in class and provide a thorough definition of each.

Digital Tools:

Bullet pointing, highlighting, bookmarking, social networking, social bookmarking, searching, googling

Understanding: The student changes information into words or symbols of his/her own, such as pictures,graphs, charts, maps, models, poems, outlines, summaries, detailed statements, technical statements, or lay

language. The student also is able to discover relationships among facts, generalizations, definitions, values, and

skills. The relationships may be cause-effect, comparative, or a theory and the supporting evidence. A value,

skill, or definition may be related to an example of its use.

Associate

Conclude

Discuss

Document

Explain

Express

Extend

Generalize

Give Examples

Give In Own Words

Infer

Interpret

Paraphrase

Rearrange

Restate

Summarize

Examples:

Objective: Participants will be able tosummarize, state in their own words, and give examples, indicatingthe importance of worldview in leadership development.

Test question: The worldview(s) of both leaders and followers has an effect on leadership.Explain this effect,and give examples that support your rationale.

Digital Tools:

Advanced searching, Boolean searching, blogging, journaling, twittering, categorizing and tagging,

commenting, annotating, subscribing


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Applying: The student solves a lifelike problem that requires the identification of the issue and the selectionand use of appropriate generalizations and skills. It provides for the transfer of training into real life.

ApplyChange

Choose

Classify

Demonstrate

Develop

Discover

Dramatize

HypothesizeIllustrate

Imitate

Manipulate

Modify

Organize

Predict

Prepare

ProduceRelate

Restructure

Sequence

Select

Show

Solve

Use

Examples:

Objective: Participants will be able to discoverthe leadership development needs of organizations,

develop appropriate programs to address those needs, and apply them in real life situations.

Test question: Based on the following scenario, relate the leadership development needs you detect.Developa program to meet those needs.Illustrate how you would implement the program.

Digital Tools:

Running, loading, playing, operating, executing, uploading, downloading, sharing, editing

Analyzing: The student is involved in the breakdown of the communication into parts so the parts and therelationship between the parts or ideas is made explicit. It should clarify the communication or problem and

indicate how it is organized, so the student can solve the problem in the light of conscious knowledge of the

parts.

Analyze

Break Down

Categorize

Compare

Contrast

Depict

Diagram

Discriminate

Distinguish

Map

Outline

Point Out

Relate To

Research

Separate

Examples:

Objective: Participants will be able to distinguish between various leadership styles.Test question: Given the following descriptions of how Martina, Steve, and Jennifer conduct themselves as

leaders within their organizations, categorize them according to leadership style. Comparetheir styles, andpoint outstrengths and weaknesses in each.

Digital Tools:

Mashing, linking, reverse-engineering, cracking, mind-mapping, validating, tagging

Evaluating: A student makes a judgment of good or bad, right or wrong, or useful or useless according tostandards he or she designates. There are two steps required: set up appropriate standards or values and

determine how closely the idea or object meets the standards. Competent evaluation will require good analysis.


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Appraise

Argue

Assess

Compare

Convince

Decide

Determine

Discriminate

Evaluate

Grade

Judge

Persuade

Prioritize/Rank

Rate

Recommend

Select

Support

Test

Value

Verify

Examples:

Objective: Participants will be able to evaluate the effectiveness of leaders.Test question: Based on your knowledge of President George Bush, evaluate him as a leader.Assess his

strengths and weaknesses, and make recommendations concerning how he might improve hisleadership.

Digital Tools:

Blog and/or vlog commenting, reviewing, posting, moderating, collaborating, networking, reflecting, alpha-

testing, beta-testing, validating information

Creating: The student solves a problem that requires original creative thinking (at least new to him/her). Itrepresents the combining of elements and parts so that they form a whole. Analysis is a prerequisite since this

operation involves the process of working with pieces, parts, and elements. They are arranged so as to constitute

a solution, pattern, or structure not clearly present before he began. Some book reports and summaries reflect the

use of synthetic skills as well as research papers, lesson plans, and sermons.

Adapt

Combine

Compile

Compose

Conjecture

ConstructCreate

Design

Devise

Dramatize

Generate

Imagine

Integrate

Invent

ModifyOriginate

Plan

Produce

Propose

Rearrange

Reconstruct

Reverse

Revise

SpeculateSynthesize

Transform

Transmit

Examples:

Objective: Participants will be able to constructleadership development proposals for serviceorganisations.

Test question: Imagine yourself the Provost of Anytown Institute of Technology. From your understanding ofleadership development,generate a specific plan to modify the institutions leadership toenhance its goal of producing civic leaders.

Digital Tools:

Programming, filming, animating, blogging, video blogging, mixing, remixing, wiki-ing, publishing,

videocasting, podcasting, directing/producing, creating or building mashups

Digital collaborations can take the form of: collaborating, moderating, negotiating, debating, commenting, net

meeting, skyping, videoconferencing, reviewing, questioning, posting, networking, contributing, chatting,

emailing, wiki-ing, twittering, texting, IMing

Documents

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