Bloom’s Taxonomy and Education Problems in Pakistan.

SUBMITTED BY: ASAD HAYAT (MS CSE – COMPUTER SCIENCE)

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning Bloom’s Taxonomy was created in 1956 under leadership of educational psychologist Dr.

Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher form of thinking in education.

Remembering: In this step previously learned knowledge is recalled or retrieved, and is mainly consist

of reading and rote learning based on repetition.

Comprehension: In this step remembered knowledge is comprehended, interpolated and interpreted or

the problem is translated to one’s own words.

Application: In this steps the concepts is used in new situation (unprompted use of an abstraction).

What was learned in the classroom is applied into novel situations in the work place.

Analysis: In this step the problem is broken down into component parts so that its organizational

structure may be understood. Inferences are made and evidence are to be fond to support

generalizations.

Evolution/Synthesis: In this step judgments are made about the value of ideas or materials. For Example,

Select the most effective solution, or Hire the most qualified candidate.

Remembering

Comprehension

Application

Analysis

Evaluation

Creativity

Bloom's taxonomy pyramid

Creativity: In this step one builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together

to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

Problems with Education System of Pakistan

Pakistan is among those countries which are going through many problems of education

and people are mostly deprived of good quality education. The main problem is inequality

between public and private education standards, the rapid growth in private institutions have

caused discrimination among students. Moreover the student’s attitude toward leaning is

mostly to get good grades, which have limited the students to rote and remembering, thus

decreasing the level of creativity.

Poverty is another factor due to which most students are unable to get quality

education. Teachers and staff in government schools are not trained well for quality teaching

thus increasing educational discrimination among poor and rich. Moreover the education

development fund allocated by government is very low, 2.1%.