Critical Thinking Skills
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BLOOM’S TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES REVISED (2001)
KNOWLEDGE DIMENSION
A. FACTUAL KNOWLEDGE – The basic elements that students must know to be acquainted with a discipline or solve problems in it.
a. Knowledge of terminology
b. Knowledge of specific details and elements
B. CONCEPTUAL KNOWLEDGE – The interrelationships among the basic elements within a larger structure that enable them to function together.
a. Knowledge of classifications and categories
b. Knowledge principals and generalizations
c. Knowledge of theories, models, and structures
C. PROCEDURAL KNOWLEDGE – How to do something: methods of inquiry, and criteria for using skills, algorithms, techniques, and methods.
a. Knowledge of subject-specific skills and algorithms
b. Knowledge of subject-specific techniques and methods
c. Knowledge of criteria for determining when to use appropriate procedures
D. METACOGNITIVE KNOWLEDGE – Knowledge of cognition in general as well as awareness and knowledge of one’s own cognition.
a. Strategic knowledge
b. Knowledge about cognitive tasks, including appropriate contextual and conditional knowledge
c. Self-knowledge
COGNITIVE PROCESS DIMENSION
1.0 REMEMBER – Retrieving relevant knowledge from long-term memory
1.1 Recognizing
1.2 Recalling
2.0 UNDERSTAND – Determining the meaning of instructional messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication.
2.1 Interpreting
2.2 Exemplifying
2.3 Classifying
2.4 Summarizing
2.5 Inferring
2.6 Comparing
2.7 Explaining
3.0 APPLY – Carrying out or using a procedure in a given situation.
3.1 Executing
3.2 Implementing
4.0 ANALYZE – Breaking material into its constituent parts and detecting how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose.
4.1 Differentiating
4.2 Organizing
4.3 Attributing
5.0 EVALUATE – Making judgments based on criteria and standards.
5.1 Checking
5.2 Critiquing
6.0 CREATE – Putting elements together to form a novel, coherent whole or make an original product.
6.1 Generating
6.2 Planning
6.3 Producing
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
| REMEMBER | UNDERSTAND | APPLY | ANALYZE | EVALUATE | CREATE | ||
| A | Factual | ||||||
| B | Conceptual | ||||||
| C | Procedural | ||||||
| D | Metacognitive |
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