Assessment Taxonomy Table
Blooms Taxonomy is a hierarchy for categorizing learning objectives. Within the framework, the
complexity and cognition associated with each learning task becomes increasingly sophisticated at
successively higher levels of the pyramid. The assessment taxonomy table below uses Blooms theory to
represent an analysis of the four learning objectives contained in this toolkit.
Bloom categories/
Revised Taxonomy
Knowledge /Remembering
(recall, list, define, identify, collect,
label)
Comprehension/Understanding
(summarize, describe interpret,
predict, discuss)
Application/Applying
(apply, demonstrate, illustrate,
classify, experiment, discover)
Analysis/Analyzing
(analyze, classify, connect, explain,
infer)
Evaluation/Evaluating
(assess, recommend, convince,
compare, conclude, summarize)
Synthesis/Creating
(combine, integrate, plan, create,
design, formulate)
Learning
Objective/Activity
objective verbs
n/a n/a
n/a n/a
Given a unit of study on educational human
resources management, students will be able
demonstrate
to demonstrate successful resolution to a
human resources scenario using Prezi,
achieving a minimum score of proficient on
the rubric provided.
After completion of a module on educational
finance, students will critique at least five
critique
areas of fiscal concern in a school budget
using Blogger, while achieving a minimum
score of proficient on the rubric provided.
By the end of a module on leadership theory,
students will summarize two key features of
summarize
a major theory of leadership using Animoto,
while attaining a minimum score of proficient
on the rubric provided.
Having completed several case studies on
effective board governance, students will
create
create three governance tips for a new
superintendent to be included in a class
Google Doc, achieving a minimum score of
proficient on the rubric provided.