In a lot of my education classes we have gone over Bloom's Taxonomy. It is a multiple layered model consisting of six cognitive levels of complexity. In the newly revised model the cognitive levels (from bottom to top) are: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, and Creating. Here is a link that discusses more in detail what his model is about: http://www.unco.edu/cetl/sir/stating_outcome/documents/Krathwohl.pdf.
The reason why I' brought his model up is because I find it amusing that the creating layer is valued the highest but still many school systems don't practice this belief. Creativity is being put to the side because the schools are too concerned about how kids are going to score on tests. The article even states that he and other educators created this model in order to reduce all the work that goes into preparing for comprehension tests. Doesn't his model or others like it say anything? Why do schools still emphasize the importance for testing? Are these kids getting anything out of these tests? It seems like these tests just measure how well the kids remember the material (which is considered to be very low on Bloom's model).
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