Purpose
Understand ♦ Apply ♦ Analyze ♦ Evaluate ♦ Create
- What’s the purpose of your assignment? To ascertain if students have correctly understood a concept? To expand their knowledge of a topic? To argue persuasively in support of or against something?
- Utilize Bloom’s Taxonomy to delineate an introductory assignment from an advanced assignment.
- Understand: Students summarize a topic, using basic sources and describing it in their own words.
- Apply: Students use previously learned information to solve a problem or complete a task.
- Analyze: Students interpret an idea, draw connections, and consider the available evidence to reach a conclusion.
- Evaluate: Students make judgments about an idea or concept.
- Create: Students produce original work that connects different elements together, such as arguing for a specific position.
