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'''Become familiar with [http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm Bloom's Taxonomy] and help your students move up the pyramid.'''
 
 
   
 
   
"In 1956, Benjamin Bloom headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. During the 1990's a new group of cognitive psychologists, lead by Lorin Anderson (a former student of Bloom), updated the taxonomy to reflect relevance to 21st century work. The two graphics show the revised and original Taxonomy. Note the change from nouns to verbs associated with each level." http://ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
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'''Become familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy and show it to your students. Instructor and student efforts should focus on moving students up the pyramid to higher-order knowledge.'''
#Can a student remember the definition of opportunity cost?
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#Can a student understand the definition of opportunity cost?
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#Can a student apply the concept of opportunity cost?
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In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, developed a classification of levels of cognitive skills important in learning.[http://www.amazon.com/Taxonomy-Educational-Objectives-Classification-Goals/dp/0679302115] In the 1990s, a group of cognitive psychologists, led by Lorin Anderson, updated the taxonomy, changing the original noun-based classification to verbs. The diagram presents the revised framework.  
#Can a student use the concept of opportunity cost to analyze a novel situation?
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#Can a student justify using the concept of opportunity cost to analyze a particular economic situation? Can a student evaluate the success of an analysis based on opportunity cost?
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#Can a student create a new use of the concept of opportunity cost? Can she create a related concept to use to analyze situations?
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Here is an illustration of the framework as applied in Economics. Students often mistakenly believe that learning is equivalent to memorizing. In contrast, college courses in economics expect students to progress to application and analysis.  
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#Can you remember/recite the definition of opportunity cost?
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#Can you understand/restate/explain the definition of opportunity cost?
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#Can you apply the concept of opportunity cost in a given context?
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#Can you use the concept of opportunity cost to analyze/compare/contrast situations?
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#Can you suggest and justify using the concept of opportunity cost to analyze a novel economic situation?  
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#Can you evaluate/critique an analysis based on opportunity cost?  
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#Can you create a new use of the concept? Can you create a related concept?

Latest revision as of 18:56, 18 December 2019

Bloom's Taxonomy


Become familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy and show it to your students. Instructor and student efforts should focus on moving students up the pyramid to higher-order knowledge.


In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, developed a classification of levels of cognitive skills important in learning.[1] In the 1990s, a group of cognitive psychologists, led by Lorin Anderson, updated the taxonomy, changing the original noun-based classification to verbs. The diagram presents the revised framework.


Here is an illustration of the framework as applied in Economics. Students often mistakenly believe that learning is equivalent to memorizing. In contrast, college courses in economics expect students to progress to application and analysis.

  1. Can you remember/recite the definition of opportunity cost?
  2. Can you understand/restate/explain the definition of opportunity cost?
  3. Can you apply the concept of opportunity cost in a given context?
  4. Can you use the concept of opportunity cost to analyze/compare/contrast situations?
  5. Can you suggest and justify using the concept of opportunity cost to analyze a novel economic situation?
  6. Can you evaluate/critique an analysis based on opportunity cost?
  7. Can you create a new use of the concept? Can you create a related concept?