Why Use Blooms Taxonomy?
The authors of the revised taxonomy suggest a multi-layered answer to this question, to which the author of this teaching guide has added some clarifying points: • Objectives (learning goals) are important to establish in a pedagogical interchange so that teachers and students alike understand the purpose of that interchange. • Teachers can benefit from using frameworks to organize objectives because • Organizing objectives helps to clarify objectives for themselves and for students. • Having an organized set of objectives helps teachers to: • “plan and deliver appropriate instruction”; • “design valid assessment tasks and strategies”;and • “ensure that instruction and assessment are aligned with the objectives.” Citations are from A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
