What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

Over the years, I have often heard faculty describe their role as creating an engaging learning environment, effectively delivering content, and instilling in students a “love of learning.” This ...

Not long ago, I participated in an exercise that asked educators to define thinking and learning. It was a familiar prompt, ...

The new “question-of-the-week” is: What are practical ways teachers can use “taxonomies” like Bloom’s and SOLO - and should we? Most teachers are aware of various kinds of taxonomies that categorize ...

Bloom’s Taxonomy represents the various categories of thinking you may engage in when you are a college student. There are many questions that you can ask yourself to check your learning and make sure ...

We’ve all been told that learning works like climbing a ladder. You start on the bottom rung with “basic” skills, climb upward through progressively “advanced” ones, and eventually reach the top. But ...

Quality Matters Standard 3.1 is one of the alignment standards and is an essential (required) standard. It states, “The assessments measure the achievement of the stated learning objectives or ...