Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains
Bloom's Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of
educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote
higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and
evaluatingconcepts, processes, procedures, and principles, rather
than just remembering facts (rote learning). It is most often used
when designing educational, training, and learning processes.
The Three Domains of Learning
The committee identified threedomainsof educational activities
orlearning(Bloom, et al. 1956):
Cognitive: mental skills (knowledge)
Affective: growth in feelings or emotional areas (attitude or
self)
Psychomotor: manual or physical skills (skills)
Since the work was produced by higher education, the words tend
to be a little bigger than we normally use. Domains may be thought
of as categories. Instructional designers, trainers, and educators
often refer to these three categories as KSA
(Knowledge[cognitive],Skills[psychomotor],
andAttitudes[affective]). This taxonomy of learning behaviors may
be thought of as the goals of the learning process. That is, after
a learning episode, the learner should have acquired a new skill,
knowledge, and/or attitude.
While the committee produced an elaborate compilation for the
cognitive and affective domains, they omitted the psychomotor
domain. Their explanation for this oversight was that they have
little experience in teaching manual skills within the college
level. However, there have been at leastthree psychomotor
modelscreated by other researchers.
Their compilation divides the three domains into subdivisions,
starting from the simplest cognitive process or behavior to the
most complex. The divisions outlined are not absolutes and there
are other systems or hierarchies that have been devised, such as
theStructure of Observed Learning Outcome(SOLO). However, Bloom's
taxonomy is easily understood and is probably the most widely
applied one in use today.
Cognitive Domain
The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of
intellectual skills (Bloom, 1956). This includes the recall or
recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts
that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills.
There are six major categories of cognitive an processes, starting
from the simplest to the most complex (see thetable belowfor an
in-depth coverage of each category):
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analysis
Synthesis
Evaluation
The categories can be thought of as degrees of difficulties.
That is, the first ones must normally be mastered before the next
one can take place.
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy
Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom, and David Krathwohl
revisited the cognitive domain in the mid-nineties and made some
changes, with perhaps the three most prominent ones being
(Anderson, Krathwohl, Airasian, Cruikshank, Mayer, Pintrich, Raths,
Wittrock, 2000):
changing the names in the six categories from noun to verb
forms
rearranging them as shown in the chart below
creating aprocesses and levels of knowledge matrix
The chart shown below compares the original taxonomy with the
revised one:
This new taxonomy reflects a more active form of thinking and is
perhaps more accurate. The new version of Bloom's Taxonomy, with
examples and keywords is shown below, while the old version may be
foundhere
Table of the Revised Cognitive Domain
Category
Examples, key words (verbs), and technologies for learning
(activities)
Remembering: Recall or retrieve previous learned
information.
Examples: Recite a policy. Quote prices from memory to a
customer. Recite the safety rules.
Key Words: defines, describes, identifies, knows, labels, lists,
matches, names, outlines, recalls, recognizes, reproduces, selects,
states
Technologies: book marking, flash cards, rote learning based on
repetition, reading
Understanding: Comprehending the meaning, translation,
interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems.
State a problem in one's own words.
Examples: Rewrite the principles of test writing. Explain in
one's own words the steps for performing a complex task. Translate
an equation into a computer spreadsheet.
Key Words: comprehends, converts, defends, distinguishes,
estimates, explains, extends, generalizes, gives an example,
infers, interprets, paraphrases, predicts, rewrites, summarizes,
translates
Technologies: create an analogy, participating incooperative
learning, taking notes, storytelling, Internet search
Applying: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of
an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into
novel situations in the work place.
Examples: Use a manual to calculate an employee's vacation time.
Apply laws of statistics to evaluate the reliability of a written
test.
Key Words: applies, changes, computes, constructs, demonstrates,
discovers, manipulates, modifies, operates, predicts, prepares,
produces, relates, shows, solves, uses
Technologies:collaborative learning, create a process, blog,
practice
Analyzing: Separates material or concepts into component parts
so that its organizational structure may be understood.
Distinguishes between facts and inferences.
Examples: Troubleshoot a piece of equipment by using logical
deduction. Recognize logical fallacies in reasoning.Gathers
information from a department and selects the required tasks for
training.
Key Words: analyzes, breaks down, compares, contrasts,diagrams,
deconstructs, differentiates, discriminates, distinguishes,
identifies, illustrates, infers, outlines, relates, selects,
separates
Technologies:Fishbowls, debating, questioning what happened, run
a test
Evaluating: Make judgments about the value of ideas or
materials.
Examples: Select the most effective solution. Hire the most
qualified candidate. Explain and justify a new budget.
Key Words: appraises, compares, concludes, contrasts,
criticizes, critiques, defends, describes, discriminates,
evaluates, explains, interprets, justifies, relates, summarizes,
supports
Technologies: survey, blogging
Creating: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements.
Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new
meaning or structure.
Examples: Write a company operations or process manual. Design a
machine to perform a specific task. Integrates training from
several sources to solve a problem. Revises and process to improve
the outcome.
Key Words: categorizes, combines, compiles, composes, creates,
devises, designs, explains, generates, modifies, organizes, plans,
rearranges, reconstructs, relates, reorganizes, revises, rewrites,
summarizes, tells, writes
Technologies: Create a new model, write an essay, network with
others
Cognitive Processes and Levels of Knowledge Matrix
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy not only improved the usability of it
by using action words, but added a cognitive and knowledge
matrix.
While Bloom's original cognitive taxonomy did mention three
levels of knowledge or products that could be processed, they were
not discussed very much and remained one-dimensional:
Factual- The basic elements students must know to be acquainted
with a discipline or solve problems.
Conceptual The interrelationships among the basic elements
within a larger structure that enable them to function
together.
Procedural- How to do something, methods of inquiry, and
criteria for using skills, algorithms, techniques, and methods.
In Krathwohl and Anderson's revised version, the authors combine
the cognitive processes with the above three levels of knowledge to
form a matrix. In addition, they added another level of knowledge -
metacognition:
Metacognitive Knowledge of cognition in general, as well as
awareness and knowledge of ones own cognition.
When the cognitive and knowledge dimensions are arranged in a
matrix, as shown below, it makes a nice performance aid for
creating performance objectives:
The Cognitive Dimension
The Knowledge Dimension
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Factual
Conceptual
Procedural
Metacognitive
However, others have identified five contents or artifacts
(Clark, Chopeta, 2004; Clark, Mayer, 2007):
Facts- Specific and unique data or instance.
Concepts- A class of items, words, or ideas that are known by a
common name, includes multiple specific examples, shares common
features. There are two types of concepts: concrete and
abstract.
Processes- A flow of events or activities that describe how
things work rather than how to do things. There are normally two
types: business processes that describe work flows and technical
processes that describe how things work in equipment or nature.
They may be thought of as the big picture, of how something
works.
Procedures- A series of step-by-step actions and decisions that
result in the achievement of a task. There are two types of
actions: linear and branched.
Principles- Guidelines, rules, and parameters that govern. It
includes not only what should be done, but also what should not be
done. Principles allow one to make predictions and draw
implications. Given an effect, one can infer the cause of a
phenomena. Principles are the basic building blocks of causal
models or theoretical models (theories).
Thus, the new matrix would look similar to this:
The Cognitive Dimension
The Knowledge Dimension
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Facts
Concepts
Processes
Procedures
Principles
Metacognitive
An example matrix that has been filled in might look something
like this:
The Knowledge Dimension
Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyze
Evaluate
Create
Facts
list
paraphrase
classify
outline
rank
categorize
Concepts
recall
explains
demonstrate
contrast
criticize
modify
Processes
outline
estimate
produce
diagram
defend
design
Procedures
reproduce
give an example
relate
identify
critique
plan
Principles
state
converts
solve
differentiates
conclude
revise
Metacognitive
proper use
interpret
discover
infer
predict
actualize
Bloom's Taxonomy: The Original Cognitive Domain
Lorin Anderson, a former student of Bloom, and David Krathwohl
revisited the cognitive domain in the mid-nineties and made some
changes. This newer version isdiscussed here, while the original is
shown below.
Cognitive Domain
The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of
intellectual skills (Bloom, et al, 1956). This includes the recall
or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts
that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and skills.
There are six major categories of cognitive processes, which are
listed in order below, starting from the simplest to the most
complex. The categories can be thought of as degrees of
difficulties. That is, the first ones must normally be mastered
before the next one can take place.
Table of The Cognitive Domain (original)CategoryExample, Key
Words (verbs), and Technologies for Learning (activities)
Knowledge: Recall data or information.
Examples: Recite a policy. Quote prices from memory to a
customer. Know the safety rules. Define a term.
Key Words: arranges, defines, describes, identifies, knows,
labels, lists, matches, names, outlines, recalls, recognizes,
reproduces, selects, states
Technologies: bookmarking, flash cards, Internet search,
reading
Comprehension: Understand the meaning, translation,
interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems.
State a problem in one's own words.
Examples: Rewrites the principles of test writing. Explain in
one's own words the steps for performing a complex task. Translates
an equation into a computer spreadsheet.
Key Words: comprehends, converts, diagrams, defends,
distinguishes, estimates, explains, extends, generalizes, gives an
example, infers, interprets, paraphrases, predicts, rewrites,
summarizes, translates
Technologies: create an analogy, participating incooperative
learning, taking notes, story telling
Application: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use
of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into
novel situations in the work place.
Examples: Use a manual to calculate an employee's vacation time.
Apply laws of statistics to evaluate the reliability of a written
test.
Key Words: applies, changes, computes, constructs, demonstrates,
discovers, manipulates, modifies, operates, predicts, prepares,
produces, relates, shows, solves, uses
Technologies:collaborative learning, create a process, material
good, etc.), blog, practice
Analysis: Separates material or concepts into component parts so
that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes
between facts and inferences.
Examples: Troubleshoot a piece of equipment by using logical
deduction. Recognize logical fallacies in reasoning.Gathers
information from a department and selects the required tasks for
training.
Key Words: analyzes, breaks down, compares, contrasts,diagrams,
deconstructs, differentiates, discriminates, distinguishes,
identifies, illustrates, infers, outlines, relates, selects,
separates
Technologies: fishbowls, debating, questioning what happened,
run a test
Synthesis: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements.
Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new
meaning or structure.
Examples: Write a company operations or process manual. Design a
machine to perform a specific task. Integrates training from
several sources to solve a problem. Revises and process to improve
the outcome.
Key Words: categorizes, combines, compiles, composes, creates,
devises, designs, explains, generates, modifies, organizes, plans,
rearranges, reconstructs, relates, reorganizes, revises, rewrites,
summarizes, tells, writes
Technologies: essay, networking
Evaluation: Make judgments about the value of ideas or
materials.
Examples: Select the most effective solution. Hire the most
qualified candidate. Explain and justify a new budget.
Key Words: appraises, compares, concludes, contrasts,
criticizes, critiques, defends, describes, discriminates,
evaluates, explains, interprets, justifies, relates, summarizes,
supports
Technologies: survey, blogging
Bloom's Taxonomy: The Affective Domain
The affective domain is one of three domains in Bloom's
Taxonomy, with the other two being
thecognitiveandpsychomotor(Bloom, et al., 1956). For an overview of
the three domains, see theintroduction.
The affective domain (Krathwohl, Bloom, Masia, 1973) includes
the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as
feelings,values, appreciation, enthusiasms,motivations,
andattitudes. The five major categories are listed from the
simplest behavior to the most complex:
Category
Example and Key Words (verbs)
Receiving Phenomena: Awareness, willingness to hear, selected
attention.
Examples: Listen to others with respect. Listen for and remember
the name of newly introduced people.
Key Words: acknowledge, asks, attentive, courteous, dutiful,
follows, gives, listens, understands
Responds to Phenomena: Active participation on the part of the
learners. Attend and react to a particular phenomenon. Learning
outcomes may emphasize compliance in responding, willingness to
respond, or satisfaction in responding (motivation).
Examples: Participates in class discussions. Gives a
presentation. Questions new ideals, concepts, models, etc. in order
to fully understand them. Know the safety rules and practice
them.
Key Words: answers, assists, aids, complies, conforms,
discusses, greets, helps, labels, performs, presents, tells
Valuing: The worth or value a person attaches to a particular
object, phenomenon, or behavior.This ranges from simple acceptance
to the more complex state of commitment. Valuing is based on the
internalization of a set of specified values, while clues to these
values are expressed in the learner's overt behavior and are often
identifiable.
Examples: Demonstrates belief in the democratic process. Is
sensitive towards individual and cultural differences (value
diversity). Shows the ability to solve problems. Proposes a plan to
social improvement and follows through with commitment. Informs
management on matters that one feels strongly about.
Key Words: appreciates, cherish, treasure, demonstrates,
initiates, invites, joins, justifies, proposes, respect, shares
Organization: Organizes values into priorities by contrasting
different values, resolving conflicts between them, and creating an
unique value system. The emphasis is on comparing, relating, and
synthesizing values.
Examples: Recognizes the need for balance between freedom and
responsible behavior. Explains the role of systematic planning in
solving problems. Accepts professional ethical standards. Creates a
life plan in harmony with abilities, interests, and beliefs.
Prioritizes time effectively to meet the needs of the organization,
family, and self.
Key Words: compares, relates, synthesizes
Internalizes Values(characterization): Has a value system that
controls their behavior. The behavior is pervasive, consistent,
predictable, and most important characteristic of the learner.
Instructional objectives are concerned with the student's general
patterns of adjustment (personal, social, emotional).
Examples: Shows self-reliance when working independently.
Cooperates in group activities (displays teamwork). Uses an
objective approach in problem solving. Displays a professional
commitment to ethical practice on a daily basis. Revises judgments
and changes behavior in light of new evidence. Values people for
what they are, not how they look.
Key Words: acts, discriminates, displays, influences, modifies,
performs, qualifies, questions, revises, serves, solves,
verifies
Bloom's Taxonomy: The Psychomotor Domain
The psychomotor domain (Simpson, 1972) includes physical
movement, coordination, and use of the motor-skill areas.
Development of these skills requires practice and is measured in
terms of speed, precision, distance, procedures, or techniques in
execution. Thus, psychomotor skills rage from manual tasks, such as
digging a ditch or washing a car, to more complex tasks, such as
operating a complex piece of machinery or dancing.
The seven major categories are listed from the simplest behavior
to the most complex:
Category
Example and Key Words (verbs)
Perception (awareness): The ability to use sensory cues to guide
motor activity. This ranges from sensory stimulation, through cue
selection, to translation.
Examples: Detects non-verbal communication cues. Estimate where
a ball will land after it is thrown and then moving to the correct
location to catch the ball. Adjusts heat of stove to correct
temperature by smell and taste of food. Adjusts the height of the
forks on a forklift by comparing where the forks are in relation to
the pallet.
Key Words: chooses, describes, detects, differentiates,
distinguishes, identifies, isolates, relates, selects.
Set: Readiness to act.It includes mental, physical, and
emotional sets. These three sets are dispositions that predetermine
a person's response to different situations (sometimes called
mindsets).
Examples: Knows and acts upon a sequence of steps in a
manufacturing process. Recognize one's abilities and limitations.
Shows desire to learn a new process (motivation). NOTE: This
subdivision of Psychomotor is closely related with the Responding
to phenomena subdivision of the Affective domain.
Key Words: begins, displays, explains, moves, proceeds, reacts,
shows, states, volunteers.
Guided Response: The early stages in learning a complex skill
that includes imitation and trial and error. Adequacy of
performance is achieved by practicing.
Examples: Performs a mathematical equation as demonstrated.
Follows instructions to build a model. Responds hand-signals of
instructor while learning to operate a forklift.
Key Words: copies, traces, follows, react, reproduce,
responds
Mechanism (basic proficiency): This is the intermediate stage in
learning a complex skill.Learned responses have become habitual and
the movements can be performed with some confidence and
proficiency.
Examples: Use a personal computer.Repair a leaking faucet. Drive
a car.
Key Words: assembles, calibrates, constructs, dismantles,
displays, fastens, fixes, grinds, heats, manipulates, measures,
mends, mixes, organizes, sketches.
Complex Overt Response (Expert): The skillful performance of
motor acts that involve complex movement patterns.Proficiency is
indicated by a quick, accurate, and highly coordinated performance,
requiring a minimum of energy.This category includes performing
without hesitation, and automatic performance.For example, players
are often utter sounds of satisfaction or expletives as soon as
they hit a tennis ball or throw a football, because they can tell
by the feel of the act what the result will produce.
Examples:Maneuvers a car into a tight parallel parking spot.
Operates a computer quickly and accurately. Displays competence
while playing the piano.
Key Words: assembles, builds, calibrates, constructs,
dismantles, displays, fastens, fixes, grinds, heats, manipulates,
measures, mends, mixes, organizes, sketches.
NOTE: The Key Words are the same as Mechanism, but will have
adverbs or adjectives that indicate that the performance is
quicker, better, more accurate, etc.
Adaptation: Skills are well developed and the individual can
modify movement patterns to fit special requirements.
Examples:Responds effectively to unexpected experiences.
Modifies instruction to meet the needs of the learners. Perform a
task with a machine that it was not originally intended to do
(machine is not damaged and there is no danger in performing the
new task).
Key Words: adapts, alters, changes, rearranges, reorganizes,
revises, varies.
Origination: Creating new movement patterns to fit a particular
situation or specific problem. Learning outcomes emphasize
creativity based upon highly developed skills.
Examples:Constructs a new theory. Develops a new and
comprehensive training programming. Creates a new gymnastic
routine.
Key Words: arranges, builds, combines, composes, constructs,
creates, designs, initiate, makes, originates.
Other Psychomotor Domain Taxonomies
As mentioned earlier, the committee did not produce a
compilation for the psychomotor domain model, but others have. The
one discussed above is by Simpson (1972). There are two other
popular versions by Dave (1970) and Harrow (1972):
Dave (1975):
Category
Example and Key Words (verbs)
Imitation Observing and patterning behavior after someone else.
Performance may be of low quality.
Examples:Copying a work of art. Performing a skill while
observing a demonstrator.
Key Words: copy, follow, mimic, repeat, replicate, reproduce,
trace
Manipulation Being able to perform certain actions by memory or
following instructions.
Examples:Being able to perform a skill on one's own after taking
lessons or reading about it. Follows instructions to build a
model.
Key Words: act, build, execute, perform
Precision Refining, becoming more exact. Performing a skill
within a high degree of precision
Examples: Working and reworking something, so it will be just
right. Perform a skill or task without assistance. Demonstrate a
task to a beginner.
Key Words: calibrate, demonstrate, master, perfectionism
Articulation Coordinating and adapting a series of actions to
achieve harmony and internal consistency.
Examples:Combining a series of skills to produce a video that
involves music, drama, color, sound, etc. Combining a series of
skills or activities to meet a novel requirement.
Key Words: adapt, constructs, combine, creates, customize,
modifies, formulate
Naturalization Mastering a high level performance until it
become second-nature or natural, without needing to think much
about it.
Examples:Maneuvers a car into a tight parallel parking spot.
Operates a computer quickly and accurately. Displays competence
while playing the piano. Michael Jordan playing basketball or Nancy
Lopez hitting a golf ball.
Key Words: create, design, develop, invent, manage,
naturally
Harrow (1972):
Category
Example and Key Words (verbs)
Reflex Movements Reactions that are not learned, such as a
involuntary reaction
Examples: instinctive response
Key Words: react, respond
Fundamental Movements Basic movements such as walking, or
grasping.
Examples: perform a simple task
Key Words: grasp an object, throw a ball, walk
Perceptual Abilities Response to stimuli such as visual,
auditory, kinesthetic, or tactile discrimination.
Examples: track a moving object, recognize a pattern
Key Words: catch a ball, draw or write
Physical Abilities (fitness) Stamina that must be developed for
further development such as strength and agility.
Examples: gain strength, run a marathon
Key Words: agility, endurance, strength
Skilled movements Advanced learned movements as one would find
in sports or acting.
Examples:Using an advanced series of integrated movements,
perform a role in a stage play or play in a set of series in a
sports game.
Key Words: adapt, constructs, creates, modifies
Nondiscursive communication Use effective body language, such as
gestures and facial expressions.
Examples:Express one's self by using movements and gestures
Key Words: arrange, compose, interpretation
Alternative to Bloom: Structure of Observed Learning Outcome
(SOLO) Taxonomy
While Bloom's Taxonomy has been quite useful in that it has
extended learning from simply remembering to more complex cognitive
structures, such as analyzing and evaluating, newer models have
come along. However, it has become more useful with the revised
taxonomy.
One model that might prove more useful is the Structure of
Observed Learning Outcome (SOLO) taxonomy. It is a model that
describes levels of increasing complexity in a learner's
understanding of subjects (Biggs, Collis, 1982). It aids both
trainers and learners in understanding the learning process. The
model consists of five levels in the order of understanding:
Pre-structural - The learner doesn't understood the lesson and
uses a much too simple means of going about itthe learner is unsure
about the lesson or subject.
Uni-structural - The learner's response only focuses on one
relevant aspectthe learner has only a basic concept about the
subject.
Multi-structural - The learner's response focuses on several
relevant aspects but they are treated independentlythe learner has
several concepts about the subject but they are disconnected.
Assessment of this level is primarily quantitative.
Relational - The different aspects have become integrated into a
coherent wholethe learner has mastered the complexity of the
subject by being able to join all the parts together. This level is
what is normally meant by an adequate understanding of a
subject.
Extended abstract - The previous integrated whole may be
conceptualized at a higher level of abstraction and generalized to
a new topic or areathe learner is now able to create new ideas
based on her mastery of the subject.
SOLO not only shows the instructors how the learners are
progressing, but also the learners themselves. It does this by
putting the processes in squares. You start in the center square
(Uni-structural) and work outwards (Multi-structural, Relational,
and finally Extended Abstract).
The example below shows the concept ofADDIEand how it starts
with learning facts and ends with being able to create a learning
process or training using ADDIE:
Learning Strategies or
Instructional Strategies
Learning or instructional strategies determine the approach for
achieving thelearning objectivesand are included in the
pre-instructional activities, information presentation, learner
activities, testing, and follow-through. The strategies are usually
tied to the needs and interests of students to enhance learning and
are based on many types of learning styles (Ekwensi, Moranski,
&Townsend-Sweet, 2006).
Thus the learning objectives point you towards the instructional
strategies, while the instructional strategies will point you to
the medium that will actually deliver the instruction, such as
elearning, self-study, classroom, or OJT. However, do not fall into
the trap of using only one medium when designing your course. . .
use ablended approach.
Although some people use the terms interchangeably, objectives,
strategies, and media, all have separate meanings. For example,
your learning objective might be "Pull the correct items for a
customer order;" the instructional strategies are a demonstration,
have a question and answer period, and then receive hands-on
practice by actually performing the job, while the media might be a
combination of elearning and OJT.
TheInstructional Strategy Selection Chartshown below is a
general guideline for selecting the learning strategy. It is based
onBloom's Taxonomy(Learning Domains). The matrix generally runs
from the passive learning methods (top rows) to the more active
participation methods (bottom rows. Bloom's Taxonomy (the right
three columns) runs from top to bottom, with the lower level
behaviors being on top and the higher behaviors being on the
bottom. That is, there is a direct correlation in learning:
Lower levels of performance can normally be taught using the
more passive learning methods.
Higher levels of performance usually require some sort of action
or involvement by the learners.
Instructional Strategy Selection Chart
Instructional Strategy
Cognitive Domain(Bloom, 1956)
Affective Domain(Krathwohl, Bloom, & Masia, 1973)
Psychomotor Domain(Simpson, 1972)
Lecture, reading, audio/visual, demonstration, or guided
observations, question and answer period
1. Knowledge
1. Receiving phenomena
1. Perception
2. Set
Discussions, multimedia CBT, Socratic didactic method,
reflection. Activities such as surveys, role playing, case studies,
fishbowls, etc.
2. Comprehension
3. Application
2. Responding to phenomena
3. Guided response
4. Mechanism
On-the-Job-Training (OJT), practice by doing (some direction or
coaching is required), simulated job settings (to include CBT
simulations)
4. Analysis
3. Valuing
5. Complex response
Use in real situations. Also may be trained by using several
high level activities coupled with OJT.
5. Synthesis
4. Organize values into priorities
6. Adaptation
Normally developed on own (informal learning) through self-study
or learning through mistakes, but mentoring and coaching can speed
the process.
6. Evaluation
5. Internalizing values
7. Origination
The chart does not cover all possibilities, but most activities
should fit in. For example, self-study could fall under reading,
audio visual, and/or activities, depending upon the type of program
you design.