1-Action Verbs For The Cognitive Domain
1-Action Verbs For The Cognitive Domain
1-Action Verbs For The Cognitive Domain
Given in these worksheets is a compilatiion of Action Verbs which are based on Revised Bloom's Taxonomy and may be employed
by Faculty for preparation of questions. They represent a combination of Verbs from sources mentioned below each domain, namely:
Cognitive, Affective and Psychomotor Domain.
ACTION VERBS APPROPRIATE FOR EACH LEVEL OF BLOOM'S/ANDERSON & KRATHWOHL'S TAXONOMY
Cognitive Domain
C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6
Remember Understand Apply Analyze Evaluate Create
Exhibit memory of Demonstrate Solve problems to Examine and break Present and defend Compile information
previously learned understanding of facts and new situations by information into parts by opinions by making together in a different
material by recalling ideas by organizing, applying acquired identifying motives or judgments about way by combining
facts, terms, basic comparing, translating, knowledge, facts, causes. Make inferences information, validity of elements in a new
concepts, and interpreting, giving techniques and rules and find evidence to ideas, or quality of pattern or proposing
answers. descriptions, and stating in a different way. support generalizations. work based on a set of alternative solutions.
main ideas. criteria.
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COGNITIVE DOMAIN
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COGNITIVE DOMAIN
1 Anderson, L.W., & Krathwohl (Eds.). (2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy
of Educational Objectives. New York: Longman.
2 Bloom, B.S. and Krathwohl, D. R. (1956). Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals, by a
committee of college and university examiners. Handbook I: Cognitive Domain. NY, NY: Longmans, Green.
3 Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching, and assessing, Abridged Edition. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
4 Handouts issued by Dean Engineering
5 Sheets issued by AP Saifullah
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