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Concept of Taxonomies in Testing | Use of Taxonomies in Testing |

QUESTION

Describe the concept and use of taxonomies in testing.

Course Test Development and Evaluation 

Course Code 6462

Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment 

ANSWER  

CONCEPT OF USE OF TAXONOMIES IN TEST DEVELOPMENT

The taxonomies provide help not only in writing educational objectives but in writing assessment items also. Questions (items) on quizzes and exams demand different levels of thinking skills.  For example, some questions might be simple memorization of facts, and others might require the ability to synthesize information from several sources to select or construct a response. These taxonomies not only provide an ease to construct the test items appropriately and provide an opportunity to make objectives measurable and achievable.

Taxonomies provide a hierarchal matrix for the teachers to proceed from lower to higher levels.

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy in Test Development

(a)  What is Bloom's Taxonomy? Bloom's taxonomy is a classification system for the cognitive skills used in learning. Teachers use this taxonomy to plan lessons. A taxonomy is a system that groups and orders concepts or things, such as the classifications in biology that include family, genus, and species. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist, created a taxonomy of the cognitive skills required for learning.

(b)  The Six Levels of Intellectual Skills Bloom's Taxonomy has six levels of intellectual skills, each one building on the previous level: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation. This taxonomy is often represented by a pyramid divided into six sections. The bottom section is knowledge.

At this level, children memorize facts and details. This is the foundation for all other cognitive skills and so most time is devoted to it in schools. The second level is understanding. It is not enough to simply memorize facts and details; a child needs to understand the concepts. Once children understand images, they must be able to apply them in different situations. As we move up the pyramid, the cognitive skills required become more and more demanding. Analyzing requires students to consider the parts of something and think about what they mean.

They may need to compare and contrast two things, for example. Synthesis requires that students go beyond the picture of what they see or read. The last, top level, of the pyramid is evaluation. At this level, students work on forming an opinion and explaining the reasoning behind their opinion. Such opinions require that students have managed to move upwards through the levels from gaining knowledge all the way up to being able to make judgments.

Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy

In the 1990s, the taxonomy was revised, replacing nouns with verbs. Instead of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation, the revised version lists remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.  Evaluating is no longer the top level. It replaces synthesis and then creating goes at the top. Technically, though synthesizing and evaluating have just switched places. The idea behind the switch is that before someone can create something new - synthesize - he has to be able to evaluate the information he already has. Creating or synthesizing is considered the most difficult mental skill.

  Utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy for Assessment

Bloom’s Taxonomy provides a useful structure to help us categorize test questions for the assessment of students’ learning. The teacher may plan a test, which includes a variety of questions, forcing the students to think and function at each level of the taxonomy. This is the teacher’s opportunity to be creative. The teacher prepares questions related to all levels of the taxonomy directly related to the content of the study. Below is an example of some questions and activities related to the study of domesticated animals utilizing Bloom’s Taxonomy methodology? Notice the use of the verbs in each question.


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Related Topics

Role of Assessment in the Teaching and Learning Process

 Concept and Use of Taxonomies in Testing 

Planning the Test for Class 

Types and Uses of Tests

Types and Steps in Portfolio Assessment

Define the term Reliability and its Importance and Scope of Reliability in Testing

Concept of Testing

What are the appropriate tools for Students' Evaluation

Procedure for Developing Standardized Tests

 Difference between Accountability and Evaluation

Consumer-Oriented Approaches

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Interviews can be used for Students' Evaluation

Assembling of Classroom Tests

Purpose and Significance of Classroom Observations

Difference between Supply type and Selection type items in the Assessment

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