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  2. Bloom's taxonomy - Wikipedia

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    Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. It was first introduced in the publication Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals. The taxonomy divides learning objectives into three broad domains: cognitive ...

  3. Higher-order thinking - Wikipedia

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    Categories in the cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) Higher-order thinking, also known as higher order thinking skills (HOTS), [1] is a concept applied in relation to education reform and based on learning taxonomies (such as American psychologist Benjamin Bloom's taxonomy). The idea is that some types of learning ...

  4. Benjamin Bloom - Wikipedia

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    Bloom's Taxonomy remains a foundation of the academic profession according to the 1981 survey, "Significant Writings That Have Influenced the Curriculum: 1906–81" by Harold G. Shane and the National Society for the Study of Education. Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem is also attributed to him. Benjamin Bloom conducted research on student achievement.

  5. Educational psychology - Wikipedia

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    Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives: categories in the cognitive domain [58] Instructional design , the systematic design of materials, activities, and interactive environments for learning, is broadly informed by educational psychology theories and research.

  6. Instructional design - Wikipedia

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    The original version of Bloom's taxonomy (published in 1956) defined a cognitive domain in terms of six objectives.. B. F. Skinner's 1954 article "The Science of Learning and the Art of Teaching" suggested that effective instructional materials, called programmed instructional materials, should include small steps, frequent questions, and immediate feedback; and should allow self-pacing. [10]

  7. Mastery learning - Wikipedia

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    The motivation for mastery learning comes from trying to reduce achievement gaps for students in average school classrooms. During the 1960s John B. Carroll and Benjamin S. Bloom pointed out that, if students are normally distributed with respect to aptitude for a subject and if they are provided uniform instruction (in terms of quality and learning time), then achievement level at completion ...

  8. Cognitive rigor - Wikipedia

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    The idea of interlacing Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth-of-Knowledge to create a new tool for measuring curricular quality was completed in 2005 by Karin Hess of the National Center for Assessment, producing a 4 X 6 matrix (the Cognitive Rigor Matrix or Hess Matrix) for categorizing the Bloom's Taxonomy and Webb's Depth-of-Knowledge levels ...

  9. David Krathwohl - Wikipedia

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    David Reading Krathwohl (May 14, 1921 – October 13, 2016) was an American educational psychologist.He was the director of the Bureau of Educational Research at Michigan State University and was also a past president of the American Educational Research Association, where he served in multiple capacities, as a member of the research advisory committee for the Bureau of Research of the USOE ...