Bloom's revised taxonomy

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Creating

  • generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things
  • designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing

Evaluating

  • justifying a decision or course of action
  • checking, hypothesising, critiquing, experimenting, judging

Analysing

  • breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships
  • comparing, organising, deconstructing, interrogating, finding

Applying

  • using information in another familiar situation
  • implementing, carrying out, using, executing

Understanding

  • explaining ideas or concepts
  • interpreting, summarising, paraphrasing, classifying, explaining

Remembering

  • recalling information
  • recognising, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding

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