The Truth Behind Bloom's Taxonomy
Alexander Salas, CPTD, CTT, SCM, SCPO
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The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives aka Bloom's Taxonomy is a classification system created by college examiners
1945 Millions of GIs Return Home
World War II ends in September of 1945 and with the funding support of the Servicemen Readjustment Act passed the previous year, it was estimated that 53 percent of college students were veterans.
1956 Initial Concerns From The Authors
Educators were not expected to substitute their ability to come up with curriculum design and objectives with the taxonomy.
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There was some concern expressed in the early meetings that the availability of the taxonomy might tend to abort the thinking and planning of teachers with regard to curriculum' particularly if teachers merely selected what they believed to be desirable objectives from the list provided in the taxonomy (p. 5).
2001 A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy is Published
Dr. Lorin Anderson, et al. were tasked with revising the original taxonomy to update it with the advances in cognitive psychology research
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