Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy
Relationship of the Revision to the Original
The original Taxonomy of Educational Objectives has been revised as A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives( Anderson et al., 2001 ). The revised taxonomy improves on the original by adding a two-dimensional framework into which you may classify learning objectives and assessment items. The two dimensions are the Knowledge Dimension and Cognitive Process Dimension.
The Cognitive Process Dimension is very much like the original Bloom’s taxonomy. Its categories are Remember, Understand, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, and Create. The cognitive processes of Synthesis and Evaluation from the old taxonomy have switched their order and become Evaluate and Create in the new taxonomy .This change makes sense, in that evaluation requires making a judgment after analyzing something against criteria while creating requires putting together something new. The definitions of the Cognitive Process Dimension categories remain like the original Bloom’s taxonomy definitions presented above, with one exception: Knowledge.
Bloom’s original Knowledge category has been divided into two parts: the Knowledge Dimension and the Cognitive Process category Remember. The Knowledge Dimension has four subcategories: Factual Knowledge, Conceptual Knowledge, Procedural Knowledge, and Metacognitive Knowledge. The Knowledge Dimension contains the type of content a learning objective refers to: factual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, procedural knowledge, or metacognitive knowledge.