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.
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Why Use Bloom's Taxonomy?
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See also, Anderson, Lorin W., et al. A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing : A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives / Editors, Lorin W. Anderson, David Krathwohl ; Contributors, Peter W. Airasian ... [et Al.]. Complete ed., Longman, 2001.
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"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: Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching- Patricia Armstrong- Bloom's Taxonomy
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In Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956), Bloom outlined six hierarchical and interconnected:
Here is an example of Bloom's Taxonomy in use: