Bloom's Taxonomy
You may find it useful to investigate Bloom's Taxonomy as a framework for writing learning objectives. In 1956 Benjamin Bloom wrote a book entitled "Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" which has been widely adopted within the educational community as the de facto way of classifying cognitive competence. An updated version of the book, edited by Anderson and Krathwohl was published in 2001. You can easily find it at www.amazon.co.uk and other online bookshops.
Bloom's Taxonomy is a simple way of categorising cognitive skills. It has six levels:
1. knowledge
2. comprehension
3. application
4. analysis
5. synthesis
6. evaluation.
You can get further information at: http://www.bobbyelliott.com/Taxonomy.htm
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Choose a simple task, eg: "Using tables in Word" and write learning objectives for it. (Try to choose a task which is of some relevance to you, or to one of your clients, as we'll be using it for activities throughout this section.) |
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