Literature Review Of Bloom's Taxonomy

Part A
A literature review of Bloom’s Taxonomy – the Cognitive Domain
History of Bloom’s Taxonomy
Benjamin Bloom, was born on 21st of February 1913 in Lansford, Pennsylvania. In 1935 he completed bachelor’s and master’s degree at the state university in Pennsylvania. Seven years later he received a doctorate degree from the University of Chicago. With the high prestige, he became a board member of examinations at the same university in 1940. Bloom served in this position until he became the examiner of the university in 1959. While working as an examiner, Bloom directed his attention to understanding different methods of obtaining educational objectives through cognition. The aim was to assess students by educational outcomes. As a result of this effort, Bloom’s taxonomy appeared in 1948 (Eisner, 2000). Even though the Taxonomy appeared as Bloom’s Taxonomy, the work belong the work of M. Englehart, E. Furst, W. Hill, and David R. Krathwohl who attached with Bloom thereby trying to understand new ways of measuring human thinking and behavior. Arranging these names in alphabetical order, Bloom comes first, so blooms’ Taxonomy as a common name for these educational objectives appeared and other names vanished over the time (THOMAS, 2004).
Just after the publication of first document on Bloom’s Taxonomy, Handbook I-the cognitive domain in 1956 with the efforts of Blooms and his colleges, educational researchers directed attention to cognitive domain in education thereby