Bloom
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Become familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy and help your students move up the pyramid.
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.
Example of framework as applied in Economics:
- Can a student remember the definition of opportunity cost?
- Can a student understand the definition of opportunity cost?
- Can a student apply the concept of opportunity cost?
- Can a student use the concept of opportunity cost to analyze a situation?
- 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?
- Can a student create a new use of the concept of opportunity cost? Can she create a related concept to use?