TYPES OF QUESTIONS : BLOOM'S TAXONOMY CLASSIFICATION

DEDUCTIVE CLASSIFICATION SKILL


Teaching Skillful Thinking

Step 1

• Make explicit what makes the thinking skillful

Step 2

• Give students guided practice in doing the thinking skillfully as they engage with the content

Step 3

• Prompt students to employ one or more relevant habits of mind

Step 4

• Prompt the students to think about their thinking so that they can guide themselves to do the thinking skillfully when it is called for

 SKILLFUL CLASSIFYING DEDUCTIVELY

• What are the categories that you want to classify the given items under?
• What are the defining characteristics of these categories?
• What are the characteristics of the items?
• Based on their characteristics, what categories do the items fall under?
• What purposes might be served by classifying these items according to this characteristics?

SPECIFY THE CATEGORIES

 

DEFINE THE CATEGORIES

 

SPECIFY THE ITEMS TO BE CLASSIFIED

 

IDENTIFY THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ITEM TO BE CLASSIFIED

 

CATEGORIZE THE ITEMS BASED ON THE WAY THE CATEGORIES HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED