How do educators design tasks in which students construct their own knowledge; conceptually demonstrate their understanding through application, analyzation, or interpretations; and elaborately ...

Bloom’s Taxonomy represents the various categories of thinking you may engage in when you are a college student. There are many questions that you can ask yourself to check your learning and make sure ...

What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

Mobile devices have long held promise in that they allow students to tackle problems in almost as many ways as there are apps — that is to say a nearly infinite number. But whereas that flexibility is ...

In two preceding Fruits of Education columns, we described several tools for organizing training: the 6Ws, learning objectives, the creation and use of agendas, KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities), ...

Assessment is one of education’s new four-letter words, but it shouldn’t be, because it’s not assessment’s fault that some adults misuse it. Assessment is supposed to guide learning. It creates a ...

I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely ...