Karachi:Institute of Business Administration, Karachi (IBA) department of Economics, Professor Qaiser Munir has said that Bloom’s taxonomy is a powerful tool to help develop learning objectives because it explains the process of learning.
This he stated while he was addressing an online video conferencing workshop arranged by Higher Education Commission (HEC) for the faculty members of Mohammad Ali Jinnah University, Karachi last evening.
Before you can understand a concept, you must remember it, to apply a concept you must first understand it. In order to evaluate a process, you must have analyzed it. To create an accurate conclusion, you must have completed a thorough evaluation.
High lightening upon the historical background Prof. Qaiser Munir said that Bloom’s Taxonomy was created in the year 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr. Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating concept processes, procedures, and principles, rather than remembering facts. He told it is most often used when designing educational, training and learning process. Explaining the workshop learning outcome, he said that its participants should be able to define the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domain of Bloom’s taxonomy. He said that participants will also be able to differentiate between cognitive, affective and psychomotor domain, using the blooms taxonomy to write effective course learning objective and to create syllabus linking to bloom’s taxonomy.