On Bloom's Taxonomy

Benjamin Bloom was an educational psychologist famous for his classification of learning, called Bloom's Taxonomy. He states that there are three types of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychometer. The cognitive domain is further categorized into six levels: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. Furthermore, he developed specific question types for each level, which are widely utilized in today's classroom.

I believe Bloom's Taxonomy can be beneficial to literacy instruction because an instructor can utilize the question types to test the students' level of literacy on various aspects. For instance, I would ask questions that test the student's analytical ability (such as compare and contrast questions) or those that test his/her application ability (such as questions asking for implications).