Question

Highest thinking ability in Bloom's revised classification:

• A. Application
• B. Analysis
• C. Create
• D. Evaluation

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Create

Bloom's Taxonomy is a framework for classifying educational learning objectives into levels of complexity. The original taxonomy was developed by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. In 2001, it was revised to better reflect the active nature of learning. The key change was a reordering of the top two levels and a change from nouns to verbs.

• Original Taxonomy (1956): The highest level was "Evaluation," which was about making judgments based on criteria. The second highest was "Synthesis" (creating new things).

• Revised Taxonomy (2001): The highest level was changed to "Create." This revision places a greater emphasis on the ability to generate new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things. "Evaluation" was moved to the second-highest level, as the act of creating often requires an initial evaluation of ideas and components.

The revised hierarchy of the cognitive domain, from lowest to highest, is:

1. Remember: Recalling facts and basic concepts.

2. Understand: Explaining ideas or concepts.

3. Apply: Using information in new situations.

4. Analyze: Drawing connections among ideas.

5. Evaluate: Justifying a stand or decision.

6. Create: Producing new or original work.

The "Create" level represents the pinnacle of cognitive skills, as it requires a person to synthesize all the lower-level skills (remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, and evaluating) to produce something genuinely new. 🧠