When using Bloom’s taxonomy of thinking skills, the idea is to move students from lower to higher-order thinking. In other words, to go:
- from knowledge (information gathering) to comprehension (confirming)
- from application (making use of knowledge) to analysis (taking information apart)
- from evaluation (judging the outcome) to synthesis (putting information together) and creative generation
This provides students with the skills and motivation to become innovative producers of goods, services, and ideas. This does not have to be a linear process but can move back and forth, and skip steps.
Vanderbilt has a great article on Bloom’s Taxonomy.