The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology

Abstract

BLOOM CREATED A LEARNING TAXONOMY IN 1956, and since that time we have learned more about the way that children learn. Teachers have also revised the way that they plan and implement instruction in the classroom. To keep the importance of Bloom's work relative to today's theories, Anderson and Krathwohl (2001) revised Bloom's original taxonomy by combining both the cognitive process, and knowledge dimensions. This new expanded taxonomy can help instructional designers and teachers to write and revise learning objectives.