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Learning TaxonomiesLearning Taxonomies

Alix Darden, PhD

Director of Faculty Development

Pediatrics

• Planning your classes• Creating Learning Objects• Writing test questions

• Measuring Development of Learning

What Are Learning What Are Learning Taxonomies? Taxonomies? Taxonomy -“classification”, so the

well-known taxonomy of learning objectives is an attempt (within the behavioral paradigm) to classify forms and levels of learning.

Bloom: Taxonomy of LearningSchulman: Table of LearningWiggins and McTighe: Six Facets of

Understanding

Cognitive - working with knowledgeAffective - concerned with values, or more precisely perhaps with perception of value issuesPsycho-Motor - it fits with the model of developing skill put forward by Reynolds (1965), and it also draws attention to the fundamental role of imitation in skill acquisition.

Bloom’s taxonomy

Blooms taxonomy revised Blooms taxonomy revised (2001)(2001)

Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl, D.R. (eds.) (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman

Lee Shulman Learning Lee Shulman Learning TaxonomyTaxonomy

Engagement and MotivationCommitment and Identity

Knowledge and Understanding

Performance and Action

Reflection and Critique

Judgment and Design

Shulman, L.S. in Change November/December 2002, 34:36-44

You ever feel like this?You ever feel like this?

Learning outcomes help you to understand what

you are doing

What Are Learning What Are Learning Outcomes? Outcomes?

They answer the following guiding questions:

Specifically, what will my students know? understand? be able to do? be able to appreciate?

Activity One: Activity One: Develop one learning objective Develop one learning objective for your project based on for your project based on Bloom’s taxonomy Bloom’s taxonomy

Activity Two: Activity Two: Design assessmentDesign assessment