Bloom’s Taxonomy…. why it’s a nuisance

All around the world, teachers, schools of education, and entire school systems are spending their hours and days discussing whether a particular bit of school activity is sufficiently devoted to ANALYSING as opposed to EVALUATING.

 For most people, most of the time, these are indistinguishable. What kind of discussion can anybody possibly have?  A pointless one.

 And at the end of this discussion, not one kid in one classroom will have learned more than before the discussion.

 The whole point of Bloom’s Taxonomy is to devalue and deemphasize factual information. Schools are kept busy skimming over the surface of what used to be the very essence of education.

Anyway, that’s the thesis of this article and two linked articles: 

http://www.rantrave.com/Rant/Blooms-Taxonomy-What-do-you-think-abou...

Meanwhile a former schoolteacher left a comment which presents the opposite view, the one where everybody should spend more time discussing the difference between analyzing and evaluating.

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