Designing and Assessing Educational Objectives: Applying the New Taxonomy

by Robert J. Marzano (Editor), John S. Kendall (Editor)

Educators across grade levels and content areas can apply the concepts of Marzano′s New Taxonomy to turn standards into concrete objectives and assessments to measure student learning.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2008

Reviews

[Debbie Whiting · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bloom's Taxonomy has been the standard in developing educational objectives for many years--knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Now, Robert Marzano contends that Bloom's taxonomy doesn't go far enough. According to Marzano, there are six levels--retrieval, comprehension, analysis, knowledge utilization, metacognitive system, and self system. Each of these six can be broken down into domains of knowledge--information, mental procedures, and psychomotor procedures. Multiple examples are given in tables and with the use of graphic organizers.