Bloom's Taxonomy

BlOOM's tAXonOMy addresses the cognitive (knowledge), affective (attitudinal) and psychomotor (skill) domains of thinking behaviors. Until recently (2001), the hierarchical concept has been used world wide as the tool for classifying learning objectives (outcomes) and evaluating assessments (indicators). A new version, by Anderson and Krathwohl, attempts to make it a "more authentic tool for curriculum planning, instructional delivery and assessment" by altering the terminology, structure and emphasis to align with the needs of the 21st century.

Remembering: Retrieving, recognizing, and recalling relevant knowledge from long-term memory.
Understanding: Constructing meaning from oral, written, and graphic messages through interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing,
inferring, comparing, and explaining.
Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing, or implementing.
Analyzing: Breaking material into constituent parts, determining how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose
through differentiating, organizing, and attributing.
Evaluating: Making judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.
Creating: Putting elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganizing elements into a new pattern or structure through
generating, planning, or producing.
(Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001)

How parallel does this new taxonomy run with our current educational goals, objectives, activities and assessments?

Check out the "New Taxonomy"