EDUCATION

Education

Education

As one historian observes, descriptions of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives (Taxonomy) usually begin with superlatives (Kreitzer & Madaus, 1994). Indeed, forty years after its original publication, "The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" has sold more than one million copies and has been translated into more than twenty different languages. It is discussed in nearly every education textbook and has become one of the most frequently cited sources in educational research (Bloom, 1994).

Benjamin S. Bloom and a committee sought to develop a cognitive template that would be useful for the design of assignments and provide a set of operational definitions carrying the ...