Taxonomy of Learning

The most popular educational taxonomy system is Bloom’s Taxonomy. A committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom, established Bloom’s Taxonomy in 1956. The purpose of the Taxonomy was to improve communication and the design of curriculum. Bloom’s Taxonomy is a fundamental teaching practice that is taught in Teacher Education programs and used in almost all educational settings in the United States.


Cognitive Domain
In the cognitive domain, all questions and activities lead toward students gaining comprehension. The levels in the cognitive domain move from basic demands to more complex demands. These levels, from simple to more complex, are:

Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
Most traditional educational classrooms focus most on the cognitive domain.

Affective Domain

In the affective domain, objectives are focused on emotions. The levels in the effective domain include:

Receiving
Responding
Valuing
Organizing
Characterizing

Psychomotor Domain

In the psychomotor domain, objectives are focus on the learners’ ability to physically manipulate objects. Unlike the cognitive or affective domain, the Bloom’s committee did not create the levels in the psychomotor domain. These levels include:

Perception
Set
Guided response
Mechanism
Complex overt response
Adaption
Organization

In the psychomotor domain, objectives are focus on the learners’ ability to physically manipulate objects. Unlike the cognitive or affective domain, the Bloom’s committee did not create the levels in the psychomotor domain. These levels include perception, set, guided response, mechanism, complex overt response, adaption, and organization.

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