We also have to take into account the type of thinking skills we wish to assess. Whether you use Bloom's taxonomy or another structure, the levels of learning can help you identify the types of questions (or other type of assessment) that are appropriate. For ease of use we have used only three levels: knowledge (recall or recognition), comprehension (or understanding) and application (or skill), and labeled the columns accordingly. The important thing is to use levels of thinking that are relevant for your students and have been incorporated in your instruction. At this stage it can be helpful to mark an "x" or make a check mark in the cells to show the levels at which each objective will be measured, as shown in example 1b.