Definitions for "Bloom's taxonomy"
A classification framework for writing educational objectives. There are three domains: the cognitive, affective and psychomotor - the latter is a later addition to Dr Bloom's original taxonomy. Within each domain there are further levels. In the cognitive domain, for example, there are six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The taxonomy is hierarchical and each level increases in difficulty and builds on and incorporates previous levels. The taxonomy was originally published in: Bloom, B.S. (ed.) (1956) Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The classification of Educational Goals: Handbook I, Cognitive Domain. New York: Toronto: Longmans. Concise, additional information is at http://www.humboldt.edu/~tha1/bloomtax.html.
Benjamin Bloom's theory of the hierarchy of learning which includes (1) knowledge, the basic level of understanding; (2) comprehension, grasping the meaning of knowledge; (3) application, the ability to apply knowledge in actual situations; (4) analysis, the ability to break down information and study it as a whole and as pieces of a whole; (5) synthesis, the ability to rearrange things learned for useful purposes; (6) evaluation, the ability to make judgments about things learned.
Classification of thinking into six levels of increasing complexity: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, evaluation and synthesis. It should be noted that even though knowledge is the most basic category of terminology, it is the most extensively developed. Besides facts it includes knowledge of classifications, criteria, and methodology; and further, knowlegdge of the principles, generalizations, theories and structures, by which ideas and systems are organized.