1. “Blooms Taxonomy based Teaching ”
St. Xavier’s Catholic College of Engineering, Chunkankadai,
Nagercoil – 629003
Prepared by
S. CAROLINE, AP/ ECE, SXCCE
2. Blooms Taxonomy
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a classification of the different
objectives and skills that educators set for their students
(learning objectives).
The taxonomy was proposed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom, an
educational psychologist at the University of Chicago.
3. Blooms Taxonomy Levels
Remembering - Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from
long‐term memory
Understanding - Constructing meaning from oral, written messages
through interpreting, classifying, summarizing, comparing, and explaining.
Applying - Carrying out or using a procedure for executing, or implementing.
Analyzing - Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts
relate to one another and to an overall structure through differentiating, organizing
Evaluating - Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking
Creating - Putting elements together to form a functional whole; reorganizing
elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning, or producing.
6. Ten questions and their Blooms Levels.
Define the term: Values, Morals & Ethics. (BL 1,
Remembering)
State Rawls principles. (BL 1, Remembering)
List the advantages of industrial standards. (BL 1,
Remembering)
Explain the importance of Self-confidence in Ethics.(BL 2,
Understanding)
Describe the characteristics of a Good Work Ethic. (BL 2,
Understanding)
7. Contd…
Apply both Kohlberg’s andGilligan’s theory in Heinz dilemma.
(BL3, Applying)
A person who has graduated from an engineering profession at an
accredited university, has not obtained licence to practice engineering.
What should he do? (BL3, Applying)
Justify, how the Space shuttle challenger disaster could have been avoided
by engineers? (BL4, Analyzing)
Is there any relationship among engineering ecology and economics?
Justify your answer. (BL4, Analyzing)
Whom do you think should take public accountability for unsafe machine?
From the designer to the final promoter, identify the roles and
responsibilities towards safety and justify your views through a detailed
case study. (BL5, Evaluating)
8. MERRILL’S FIRST PRINCIPLES OF INSTRUCTION
these principles are prescriptive (design-oriented) rather
than descriptive (learning-oriented).
Merrill’s five principles are:
Learning is promoted when learners are engaged in solving real-world problems
Learning is promoted when existing knowledge [and skill] is activated as a
foundation for new knowledge [and skill]
Learning is promoted when new knowledge is demonstrated to the learner
Learning is promoted when new knowledge is applied by the learner
Learning is promoted when new knowledge is integrated into the learner’s world
9. Concept Map
A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts
suggested relationships between concepts. Concept maps may be
used to organize and structure knowledge.
A concept map typically represents ideas and information as boxes or
circles, which it connects with labeled arrows, often in a downward-
branching hierarchical structure. The relationship between concepts can
be articulated in linking phrases such as "causes", "requires", "such as" or
"contributes to".
10. Add Ideas to the created concept map from courses which are taught in
the previous semesters as well as in the current semester other than your
course, so that you can link ideas/concepts of other courses for creating a
Complete Concept map (for that conduct brainstorm sessions with all the
students) for better understanding about your course for the students.
Apply Cognitive Levels and Propositions used in the complete Concept
Map to develop more number of questions (direct or indirect) in the form
of short, brief and descriptive for the question bank.
