There are some simple yardsticks for measuring whether an educational interchange debate is “objective”. One such yardstick is the very scientific BLOOM'S TAXONOMY OF EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES which is organized into the cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains and describes human behavior in an OBJECTIVE FASHION in three separate yet related domains.
Here are a few excerpts from that evaluation tool for everyone’s consideration if they feel so inclined to explore this scientific tool:
- · Bloom demonstrated decades ago that most teaching tended to be focused on fact-transfer and information recall - the lowest level of training - rather than true meaningful personal development. Much corporate training is also limited to non-participative, unfeeling knowledge-transfer which is reason alone to consider the breadth and depth approach exemplified in Bloom's model.
- · Don't be put off by the language or the apparent complexity of Bloom's Taxonomy - at this basic level it's a relatively simple and logical model. Taxonomy means 'a set of classification principles', or 'structure', and Domain simply means 'category'. Bloom and his colleagues were academics looking at learning as a behavioral science.
- · Cognitive domain (intellectual capability, i.e., knowledge, or 'think')
- · Affective domain (feelings, emotions and behavior, i.e., attitude, or 'feel')
- · Psychomotor domain (manual and physical skills, i.e., skills, or 'do')
- · COGNITIVE KEY WORDS: explain, reiterate, reword, critique, classify, summarize, illustrate, translate, review, report, discuss, re-write, estimate, interpret, theorize, paraphrase, reference, example
- · AFFECTIVE KEY WORDS: ask, listen, focus, attend, take part, discuss, acknowledge, hear, be open to, retain, follow, concentrate, read, do, feel
- · PSYCHOMOTOR KEY WORDS: construct, solve, combine, coordinate, integrate, adapt, develop, formulate, modify, master.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS TOOL: http://www.businessballs.com/bloomstaxonomyoflearningdomains.
