Benjamin Bloom, was born in Lansford, Penn., and received a B.A. from Pennsylvania State University in 1935 and an M.S. from Pennsylvania State, also in 1935. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1942. In 1948, he and a group of colleagues with the American Psychological Association began discussions that led to the taxonomy of educational goals. The committee was appointed to create taxonomies in cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. They finished the cognitive portion of their work in 1956 and found that over 95 % of the test questions students encounter require them to think only at the lowest possible level...the recall of information. (University of Chicago Chronicle, 1999) Benjamin Bloom was fortunate enough to be the first author on the first publication, thereby forever linking the committee's work to his name in the public mind.
The cognitive domain involves knowledge and the development of intellectual skills. This includes the recall or......
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