What is Blooms TL?

Bloom's TL is an iOS app that classifies learning outcome statements based on Bloom's Taxonomy (Anderson and Krathwhol, 2001). This taxonomy describes the depth of thinking required by students in learning activities and assessments. The six levels in Bloom's taxonomy are: Remembering, Comprehending, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, and Creating. The classification in this app uses tables containing verbs and other parts of speech that are generally indicative of a given Bloom's level. These tables have been previously been identified in the education literature (Stanny, 2016; von Konsky et al., 2018).

The depth of thinking and an indicative list of verbs for each of the six Bloom's level is given in the table below. For a complete list of verbs used in this app, see the Verbs screen in this app.

Bloom’s level	Semantic meaning	Indicative verbs
1. Remembering	Simple recall often associated with memorisation	list, name, state, define
2. Comprehending	Basic understanding sufficient to explain ideas to others	identify, explain, describe
3. Applying	Use of information or knowledge in new ways	apply, use, solve, compute
4. Analysing	Establishing connections or relationships	analyse, compare, classify
5. Evaluating	Form a judgement or critique	evaluate, appraise, determine
6. Creating	Synthesising something new	create, design, plan, compose

Acknowledgements

This app uses an approach described in prior research that was supported in part by Curtin University and the Higher Education Text Analytics (HETA) project funded by a Learning and Teaching Grant from the Australian Technology Network (ATN) (von Konsky et al., 2018).

References

Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing: A revision of Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives

Stanny, C. J. (2016). Reevaluating Bloom’s Taxonomy: What measurable verbs can and cannot say about student learning. Education Science, 6(37), 12.

von Konsky, B.R., Zheng, L., Parkin, E., Huband, S. & Gibson, D. (2018). Parts of speech in Bloom’s Taxonomy Classification. In M. Campbell, J. Willems, C. Adachi, D. Blake, I. Doherty, S. Krishnan, S. Macfarlane, L. Ngo, M. O’Donnell, S. Palmer, L. Riddell, I. Story, H. Suri & J. Tai (Eds.), Open Oceans: Learning without borders. Proceedings ASCILITE 2018 Geelong (pp. 527-532).

Verb Tables

Verb tables currently loaded in Bloom's TL can be seen on the Verbs screen. Select the Bloom's Level to view the verbs associated with that level, and a brief overview that characterises the verbs in each category.

Bloom's TL enables users to import their own verb tables to supplement the tables that have been pre-loaded. Use the Import button on the Verbs screen.

Imported tables must be plain text in Comma Separatd Value (CSV) format. The first line of the CSV file must contain the following header:

Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analysing, Evaluating, Creating

It is necessary that the header uses the Australian spelling shown, with the first letter capitalised.

Clear imported verb tables by pressing the Reset button on the Verbs screen.