Teaching & Learning with BLOOMS - Processing Verbs

EVALUATION

Judging the value of materials, ideas, and methods

·        Interpret    

·        Judge

·        Justify

·        Infer

·        Evaluate

·        Appraise

·        Assess

·        Critique

·        Determine

·        Grade, Rank, Rate

·        Measure

·        Solve

·        Decide

·        Verify

·        Conclude

SYNTHESIS

Putting together constituent parts or elements to form a whole – new product, idea, concept

·        Add to

·        Predict

·        Combine

·        Translate

·        Extend

·        Vary

·        Substitute

·        Construct

·        Create

·        Generate

·        Integrate

·        Plan

·        Prescribe

·        Propose

·        Alter

·        Hypothesize

·        Design

·        Reconstruct

·        Rename

·        Reorganize

·        Modify

ANALYSIS

Break down an idea into it’s constituent elements – understand it’s “makeup”

·        Compare / Contrast

·        Take apart

·        Specify

·        Dissect, Divide

·        Distinguish

·        Analyze

·        Infer

·        Relate

·        Order

·        Categorize / Classify (New)

·        Take Away

·        Deduce, Detect

·        Determine

·        Differentiate

·        Isolate

APPLICATION

Using methods, concepts, principles, and theories in new situations

·        Organize

·        Group

·        Collect

·        Apply

·        Use, Utilize

·        Relate

·        Calculate

·        Demonstrate

·        Employ

·        Examine

·        Illustrate

·        Solve

·        Summarize

·        Order

·        Classify

·        Model

·        Construct

·        Code

COMPREHENSION

Understanding of a communicated idea without relating it to the materials

·        Explain, Describe

·        Translate, Interpret

·        Group, Classify

·        Regroup

·        Restate

·        Associate

·        Compare

·        Contrasts

·        Differentiate

·        Discuss

·        Distinguish

·        Estimate

·        Connect

·        Conclude

·        Summarize

·        Predict

·        Show

·        Paraphrase

KNOWLEDGE

Recall Specific bits of Information

·        Explain, State

·        List

·        Observe

·        Demonstrate

·        Describe

·        Uncover

·        Count, Tabulate

·        Draw

·        Point

·        Quote, Read, Write

·        Trace

·        Repeat

·        Recognize

·        Recite

·        Define

·        Tell, Indicate

·        Recall

·        Identify