Activities with the Domains

There are many ways to learn and assess mastery in each of the Bloom's domains. What Bloom's (old and new) tries to capture is the learning process, creating understanding about how we learn.

Reasoning through the sequence, learning basically happens like this:

Before we can understand a concept, we have to remember it.

Before we can apply the concept, we must understand it.

Before we analyze a concept, we must be able to apply it.

Before we can evaluate its importance or impact, we must have shown proficiency in application.

Before we can create, making our own use of the concept, we must have remembered, understood, applied, analyzed, and evaluated the concept.

Creating is the highest order of thinking and learning mastery.

The process is one of basic knowledge acquisition, deepening understanding, new knowledge creation.