BLOOM’SHIERARCHY OF QUESTIONS

The Art of QuestioningQUESTIONING is the starting point of learning. People learn because they ask questions. In the teaching-learning process the kind of questions a teacher asks and the way he asks them to some extent determines his effectivity as well as the outcome of his teaching methods and techniques.

Hierarchy of QuestionsKNOWLEDGE QUESTIONS

Train the learners the ability to recall materials learned previously such as specific names, facts, places, figures, events, concepts, principles, and

others.Examples:

Who founded the Katipunan?Identify people involved in the Philippine Revolution.

Enumerate the three purposes of Katipunan.

Key words: name, tell, list, describe, recall, state, define, identify

Based on Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Hierarchy of QuestionsCOMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

Train a student to understand oral and written communications and make use of them. These can be manifested in the following questions:

The student can express ideas in his own words.The student can separate from essential from the non-

essential.The student can establish relationships among things.

The student can make inferences.Examples: Explain in your own words the El Nino

and La Nina Phenomena.Key words: explain, compare, predict, infer

Based on Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Hierarchy of QuestionsAPPLICATION QUESTIONS

Require the students to transfer what they have learned to new situations with little

or no supervision. The student is expected to put some skills into practice, solve

problems, and construct meaning.Examples:

How do you express in algebraic equation-the age of the earth is twice the age of the moon?

Key words: demonstrate, plan, solve, apply, build, develop, construct

Based on Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Hierarchy of QuestionsANALYSIS QUESTIONS

Require a student to breakdown an idea into parts, to distinguish these parts and know

their relationships to one another. The student is able to distinguish relevant from irrelevant

data, a fact from a generalization, etc.Examples:

What part of the essay is conclusion?What are the fallacies in the arguments

presented? Key words: classify, distinguish, discriminate,

categorize, analyze

Based on Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Hierarchy of QuestionsSYNTHESIS QUESTIONS

The student puts together or integrates a number of ideas or facts into arrangement. Some

common focus of synthesis is the summary of the lesson either written or oral, a proposal, a plan of action, a short story, a bulletin board

display.Examples:

How can you help improve our economy?What plans can you propose to make the centennial

celebration more meaningful?Key words: propose a plan, formulate a solution, develop, create, summarize

Based on Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy

Hierarchy of QuestionsEVALUATION QUESTIONS

The students appraise, criticize or judge the worth of an idea, a statement, or a

plan on the basis of a set of criteria provided to them or which they

themselves have developed.Examples:

Is it good for Filipinos to ratify the VFA?Are you in favor of amending the present

constitution? Key words: select, judge, evaluate, decide

Based on Bloom’s Cognitive Taxonomy