Bloom's Assessment Types

Activities that require students to use procedures to solve or complete familiar or unfamiliar tasks.

• Understand

• Remember

• Apply

• Create

Objective items that required students to recall or recognize information: fill-in-the-blank, multiple-choice, labeling, and reciting.

• Remember

• Analyze

• Evaluate

• Apply

Papers, oral/written exam questions, problems, class discussions, etc. that require summarizing, comparing/contrasting, classifying, paraphrasing, and finding or identifying examples.

• Create

• Evaluate

• Apply

• Understand

Research projects, performances, essays, plans, designs, etc.

• Create

• Evaluate

• Apply

• Remember

Activities that require the selection of relevant from irrelevant parts, determine how elements function together, or determine bias, values, and underlying intent, examples include: case studies, critiques, papers, projects, debates, and concept maps.

• Analyze

• Apply

• Understand

• Create

Activities that require testing, monitoring, judging, or critiquing reading, performances, or products against established criteria or standards.

• Remember

• Evaluate

• Apply

• Analyze