Bloom’s Taxonomy

Benjamin Bloom, a professor of education at the University of Chicago during the second half of the twentieth century, worked with a group of other researchers to design a system of classifying goals for the learning process. His efforts to develop this system were based on his work as “university examiner.” In this role he designed tests that would determine whether a student at the university should or should not receive a bachelor’s degree. This system is known as Bloom’s taxonomy, and it is now used at all levels of education to define and describe the process that students use to understand and think critically about what they are learning.