Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies by Martin Cohen

Author:Martin Cohen
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781118924730
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

Level 1 – Knowledge: Normally people think of knowledge as something wonderful, even powerful. But Bloom defines ‘knowledge’ simply as the remembering of previously learned material. Nothing very grand about that, which is why he puts it right at the bottom of his hierarchy of learning. An example is recalling data or information, such as knowing the names of different kinds of trees.

Level 2 – Comprehension: The next rung up, comprehension, is the ability to grasp the meaning of material. But this kind of understanding is low-level stuff too. An example is understanding texts, instructions and problems, such as being able to restate something in your own words.

Level 3 – Application: This stage is a step up the hierarchy, because it requires the ability to apply, to use, the ‘learned material’ in new situations. An example would be the practical use of concepts or skills: someone who has studied the difference between facts and inferences is able to apply this skill to certain texts in his examination of arguments.

But if you just rote learn how to apply something that you've been told about (as many people remember being drilled to do in classes), this is still learning at Level 1.

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