Definitions
Picture the Pyramid (New)
Dominant Domains
Old vs New
100
This framework was originally developed as a method of classifying educational goals for student performance evaluation.
What is "Blooms Taxonomy"?
100
In the new Taxonomy, this section of the pyramid means for a student to produce original work.
What is to "Create"?
100
This domain of knowledge involves for someone to use skills like, critical thinking or problem solving.
What is cognitive?
100
Evaluation was the top part on which Taxonomy pyramid?
What is "The Old"?
200
This section found within the original taxonomy is said to represent “judgments about the value of material and methods for given purposes.”
What is "Evaluation"?
200
In this section of the new taxonomy, this redesigned term means for a student to explain ideas or concepts.
What is to "Understand"?
200
This domain focuses on the interests of the learners.
What is the "Affective" domain?
200
This was the closest section to the very top of the pyramid representing the old taxonomy.
What is "Synthesis"?
300
This taxonomy element means for someone to engage in “putting together of elements and parts so as to form a whole.”
What is "Synthesis"?
300
If a student in your class were to make or draw certain connections when dealing with a certain topic, the student would be engaging in this section of the new pyramid.
What is to "Analyze"?
300
Reflexes are a prime example when examining this particular domain.
What is the "Psychomotor" domain?
300
These two elements of the taxonomy pyramid did not change as drastically as their fellow counterparts.
What is Apply/Application, and Analyze/Analysis?
400
This term refers to the “use of abstractions in particular and concrete situations.
What is "Application"?
400
Students who are to take newly learned information and "sketch it" into new situations, they would be taking part in this section of the new pyramid/
What is to "Apply"?
400

These are the levels that make up Higher order

What are: apply, analyze, evaluate, create 

OR application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation

400
These two sections lie on the bottom of both the old and the new taxonomy pyramid. They sound similar, but are not the same.
What are "remember" and "knowledge"?
500
If one were to take part in the process of "the recall of specifics and universals, the recall of methods and processes, or the recall of a pattern, structure, or setting", they would be using this.
What is "Knowledge"?
500
Engaging in this behaviour, (as often one student may do the night before an exam), is to duplicate mentally or physically certain needed pieces of information;.
What is to "Remember"?
500

These are  the levels that make up  lower order

What are remembering and understanding OR Knowledge and Comprehension

500
In the new pyramid, to "understand" once had this different term in its place on the old pyramid.
What is "Comprehension"?
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