Goldilocks and the Three Bears (à la Bloom's Taxonomy)

LEVEL I - KNOWLEDGE:

LEVEL II - COMPREHENSION:

LEVEL III - APPLICATION:

LEVEL IV - ANALYSIS:

LEVEL V - SYNTHESIS:

LEVEL VI - EVALUATION:

QUESTIONING FOR QUALITY THINKING: BLOOM'S COGNITIVE DOMAIN IN BRIEF

Knowledge -Identification and recall of information

Comprehension - Organization and selection of facts and ideas

Application - Use of facts, rules, and principles.

Analysis - Separation of a whole into component parts

Synthesis - Combination of ideas to form a new whole

Evaluation - Development of options, judgements, of decisions