Bloom's Pyramid

Now we see Bloom's in a more familiar representation, the pyramid. The idea behind learning taxonomies or classifications systems is that there is a hierarchical ladder of learning processes that one proceeds through. Higher order thinking would be those cognitive processes near the top of the pyramid which theoretically require base level knowledge and understanding. In Bloom's taxonomy, for example, skills involving analysis, evaluation and synthesis (creation of new knowledge) are thought to be of a higher order, requiring different learning and teaching methods, than the learning of facts and concepts.