Bloom's Taxonomy and Critical Thinking go hand in hand. Bloom's taxonomy takes students through a thought process of analyzing information or knowledge critically. Bloom's taxonomy begins with knowledge/memory and slowly pushes students to seek more information based upon a series of levels of questions and keywords that brings out an action on the part of the student. Both critical thinking and Bloom's taxonomy are necessary to education and meta-cognition.
Practical Applications:
Citations are from A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
In the revised taxonomy, knowledge is at the basis of these six cognitive processes, but its authors created a separate taxonomy of the types of knowledge used in cognition:
in Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956), Bloom outlined six hierarchical and interconected le
Here is an example of Bloom's Taxonomy in use: