In preparing your table of specification from your course outline, some lecturers use Bloom’s taxonomy while other use that of Solo. Which one do you use and what informs your choice?
Higher education, measurement, evaluation, teaching, curriculum.
Dear Dennis Soku
There are numerous difficulties with the Bloom Taxonomy.
I'd recommend you interesting article which I am sending you as a pdf file
I hope that will help,
Best reagrds,
Dear Dennis Soku
There are numerous difficulties with the Bloom Taxonomy.
I'd recommend you interesting article which I am sending you as a pdf file
I hope that will help,
Best reagrds,
Hello @ Dennis, as more and more institutions are now using OBE (outcome based education), we do find that Solo taxonomy has advantages, as are expressed on this link. I personally find that during this long period when we used Bloom's taxonomy, students seem to focus on learning to remember and regurgitate info. In my college, we have something like 40% remembering level; 40% understanding level and 20% applying level in exam, although projects will include more higher order thinking skills.
The advantages of SOLO : "advantages concern not only item construction and scoring, but incorporate features of the process of evaluation that pay attention to how students learn, and how teachers devise instructional procedures to help students use progressively more complex cognitive processes.
Both teachers and students often progress from more surface to deeper constructs and this is mirrored in the four levels of the SOLO taxonomy..."
Let's not be stuck at the lowest level of Bloom!
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/finding_common_ground/2014/02/whats_our_best_taxonomy_blooms_or_solo.html
I have found that the Blooms Digital Taxonomy to be more helpful as it caters to the use of technology in teaching such as "listing" (traditional taxonomy) now substituted with bullet-pointing (digital taxonomy). See link attached for more information on the latter.
Many thanks,
DFJ.
https://edorigami.wikispaces.com/file/view/bloom's+Digital+taxonomy+v3.01.pdf
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