Moving Students from Information Recitation to Information Understanding: Exploiting Bloom's Taxonomy in Creating Science Questions

by: Thomas Lord and Sandhya Baviskar

Recent studies have indicated that college undergraduates have retained little understanding of the information in the science courses they have taken when they graduate. Science is taught as detailed, factual content and most students are evaluated by their ability to recall and summarize the information provided. As such, students concentrate their studies on terms and definitions, spending little time on application and analysis. To correct the problem, instructors are encouraged to formulate more questions around the mid and upper levels of Bloom’s taxonomy in the examinations they prepare.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 3/1/2007Stock # jcst07_036_05_40Volume 036Issue 05

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