Classification of learning objectives
Cognitive domain, or knowledge-based learning
- Knowledge or remembering: knowing facts, terms, basic concepts. Able to cite or recite, define, duplicate, list, memorize, repeat or state.
- Comprehension or understanding: understanding of facts and ideas. Able to summarize, translate, organize, classify, describe, explain, identify, locate, report or select (from a list)
- Application: using acquired knowledge to problem-solve. Able to problem-solve, identify connections and relationships, and their relevance to situations, execute, implement, solve, use, demonstrate, interpret, operate or sketch
- Analysis: examining and breaking information into component parts, making inferences, finding evidence. Able to compare and contrast, identify motives or causes, draw connections, expound, differentiate, relate, distinguish, examine, question or test
- Evaluation: presenting or defending opinions by making judgments about information. Able to assess quality, validity, agree or disagree, defend, judge, support, weight, critique or appraise
- Synthesis or creating: building a structure or pattern from diverse elements; bringing pieces of info together to form new meaning. Able to argue, prove or disprove, restructure or convert ideas, design, assemble, construct, conject, develop, formulate, author or create
Affective domain, or emotion-based learning
- Receiving - passively paying attention. Memory and recognition.
- Responding - active participation in the process. Reactivity.
- Valuing - attaching value to an object, subject, piece of information. Values.
- Organizing - putting together different values, information and ideas.
- Characterizing - building abstract knowledge.
Psychomotor domain, or action-based learning
- Perception
- Set
- Guided response
- Mechanism
- Complex overt response
- Adaptation
- Origination