Activities Listed by Cognitive
Skill
(Bloom's
Taxonomy)
The Skills: (click on
thinking skill to go directly to related
activities)
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Knowledge: recalling or
remembering specific
facts, information, or general concepts without necessarily
understanding it. Includes behaviors such as describing, listing,
identifying...
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Comprehension: involves
understanding learned material. Demonstrating ability to grasp meaning, explain, and restate ideas.
Includes behaviors such as discussing, interpreting, explaining...
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Application: demonstrating
ability to use learned material in new situations, to put ideas and
concepts to work in solving problems. Includes behaviors such as
demonstrating, showing, making use of...
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Analysis: involves breaking
down information into its component parts to see interrelationships and
ideas. Related behaviors include differentiating, comparing and
contrasting, categorizing...
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Synthesis:
ability to put together separate ideas to form a new whole, establish
new relationships. Involves using creativity to compose or design
something new.
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Evaluation: involves judging the
value of evidence based on definite criteria. Related behaviors include
concluding, criticizing, prioritizing, recommending...
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