Blooms Taxonomy is a framework for categorizing educational goals and a classification of the different objectives and skills that educators set for their students (learning outcomes) . It was developed to provide a common language for teachers to discuss and exchange learning and assessment methods. The framework consists of six major categories: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. Blooms Taxonomy is hierarchical, meaning that learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels. The three domains of Blooms Taxonomy are the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor, and each domain has a hierarchy that corresponds to different levels of learning.

Educators use Blooms Taxonomy to create learning outcomes that target not only subject matter but also the depth of learning they want students to achieve, and to then create assessments that accurately report on students’ progress towards these outcomes. The goal of an educator’s using Bloom’s Taxonomy is to encourage higher-order thought in their students by building up from lower-level cognitive skills. Blooms Taxonomy is a powerful tool to help develop learning outcomes because it explains the process of learning. Writing clear learning objectives are critical to creating and teaching a course, and Blooms Taxonomy should be applied when creating course objectives.