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
Related resources
- Iowa State University, Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching
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