Learning Objectives

Bloom’s Taxonomy

According to Bloom there are three domains of learning: Cognitive, Affective, and Psychomotor. These are commonly referred to KSA: Knowledge (Cognitive), Skills (Psychomotor), and Attitudes (Affective) (Big Dog and Little Dog, 2015). Bloom’s taxonomy concerns the cognitive domain. It is a hierarchy of cognition – starting with lower order thinking progressing to higher level thinking. Bloom’s taxonomy was created to provide common ground for educators to use when discussing course objectives and creating assessments of those objectives. Although originally developed within an educational context, it is valuable in corporate training as well because using this hierarchy when creating or evaluating learning goals can increase effectiveness of workplace training (Learning Everest, 2024).

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Here are the six levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy starting with the lowest level:

1. Knowledge. Knowledge is concerned with remembering the learning content that was presented to the learner.
    

2. Comprehension. Comprehension is concerned with learners grasping the meaning of the topics at hand.
    

3. Application. Application means to take what has been learned and uses it in varied situations.
    

4. Analysis. With analysis, logic is used to break down the learning content presented and use that for understanding.
    

5. Synthesis. Synthesis involves taking various pieces of what they have learned and using those to formulate something new.
    

6. Evaluation. Evaluation requires learners to interpret and judge information. They will also need to justify these interpretations and judgements based on what they have learned in the learning experience.