Revised Blooms Taxonomy

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Descriptor

Blooms Cognitive
Verbs

Meaning/definition

Remember Recognizing, listing, describing, retrieving, naming, finding,

ing
defining, defining,
identifying, labeling, , matching,
naming, outlining, recalling, recognizing, reproducing, ,
stating.
Understan Explaining,
Interpreting, summarizing, paraphrasing,
ding
classifying,
Comprehending, distinguishing, extending,
generalizing, giving an example, inferring, translating
Applying
Demonstrating,
implementing,
carrying
out,
using,
executing,
Applying, computing, manipulating, modifying, operating,
relating, showing, solving
Analyzing Differentiating, Comparing, organizing, deconstructing,
interrogating,
finding,
Analyzing,
breaks
down,
contrasting, distinguishing,, relates, ,.

Recalling information

Evaluating Checking,
hypothesizing,
critiquing,
experimenting,
judging,
Appraising, concluding, criticizing, defending, evaluating, ,
justifying,
supporting
Creating
Designing, constructing, planning, producing, inventing,
compiles
Composing, creating, devising, generating, reconstructing,

Justifying a decision
or course of action

Explaining ideas or
concepts
Using information in
another familiar
situation
Breaking information
into parts to explore
understandings and
relationships

Generating new ideas,

products, or ways of
viewing things

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