WITH the outcome-based syllabus prominent in today’s academe, Bloom’s taxonomy has renewed popularity.
The many dutiful among us faithfully adopt the behavioral verbs to distinguish from one another the six levels of knowing, understanding, applying, analyzing, organizing and evaluating. There’s the quick switch to Krathwohl’s revision of Bloom’s when the sixth level underwent transformation as “creating.” Education upperclassmen conscientiously research on the taxonomy of cognition in their professional education courses.