Resources & Links
- Bloom's Taxonomy: Vanderbilt Center for TeachingInformation regarding Bloom's Taxonomy from Vanderbilt University's Center for Teaching.
- Revised Bloom's TaxonomyA group of cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists and instructional researchers, and testing and assessment specialists published in 2001 a revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy with the title A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. This title draws attention away from the somewhat static notion of “educational objectives” (in Bloom’s original title) and points to a more dynamic conception of classification.
- What is Bloom's Taxonomy?In 1956, Benjamin Bloom with collaborators Max Englehart, Edward Furst, Walter Hill, and David Krathwohl published a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Familiarly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy, this framework has been applied by generations of K-12 teachers, college and university instructors and professors in their teaching.
Research & Reference
- Benjamin Bloom: Credo ReferenceA Credo Reference landing page on Benjamin Bloom. This page includes links to reference works, journal articles, and a mind map.
- Bloom's Taxonomy: Credo ReferenceA Credo Reference landing page on Bloom's Taxonomy. This page includes links to reference works and journal articles.
Perspectives
Behaviorism
Two opposed points of view,? John B. Watson wrote in 1925, ?are still dominant in American psychological thinking: introspective or subjective psychology, and behaviorism or objective psychology.? His statement is still true today. Reacting against traditional psychology's emphasis on feelings and introspection, and its lack of precise categories, Watson proposed a methodological approach to psychological problems that would be logical, precise, and scientific. Consciousness, he believed, was not a usable hypothesis: the proper subject of human psychology is the behavior of the human being. Behaviorism aimed to free psychology from elusive, vague concepts and establish it as a true natural science.
Trends in Behavioral Psychology Research
Behavioural psychology emphasises an experimental-clinical approach to the application of behavioural and cognitive sciences to understanding human behaviour and developing interventions to enhance the human condition. Behavioural psychologists engage in research, education, training, and clinical practice regarding a wide range of problems and populations. The distinct focus of behavioural psychology is twofold: (a) its strong reliance on an empirical approach; and (b) its theoretical grounding in learning theories, broadly defined, including respondent conditioning, operant learning, social learning, cognitive sciences, and information processing models. This book presents new international research in this important field.
