Bloom’s Revised
Taxonomy • Taxonomy of Cognitive Objectives
• 1950s- developed by Benjamin Bloom
• Means of expressing qualitatively different kinds of
thinking
• Been adapted for classroom use as a planning tool
• Continues to be one of the most universally applied
models
• Provides a way to organise thinking skills into six levels,
from the most basic to the more complex levels of thinking
• 1990s- Lorin Anderson (former student of Bloom) revisited
the taxonomy
• As a result, a number of changes were made