Tuesday, December 15, 2009


Hello again:


There is More than one type of learning. A committee of colleges, led by Benjamin Bloom, identified three domains of educational activities: Cognitive (mental skills, knowledge) Affective (grown in feeling and emotional areas, attitude) and Psycho motor (manual or physical skills).

This compilation devides the three domains into subdivisions, starting from the simplest behavior to the most complex. The divisions outlined are not absolutes and there are other systems or hierarchies that have been devised in the educational and trining world. However, Bloom's taxonomy is easily understood and is probably the most widely applied one is use today because the accuracy of its measures from the lowest to higher order thinking.





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