Senior Scholar at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL) in Aurora,

Colorado

Developed to respond to the shortcomings of the widely used Bloom’s

contains a network of interrelated beliefs and that are used to

make judgments about the advisability of engaging in a new task.

is made up of three systems and the Knowledge Domain, all of which are

important for thinking and learning.

it is useful to organize the procedures in the psychomotor

domain into two categories like what we did in mental procedures.

What are the three knowledge domain

What are the categories for Mental Procedure

It is the sets of simple combination. Thus, what is commonly thought of as a sport or a recreational activity

can be operationally defined as the use of a set of complex combination procedures for the purpose

of accomplishing specific physical goals procedures.

Simple combination procedures involve sets of foundational procedures acting in

parallel.

these are the basic parts of our movement upon which more complex procedures are

developed

At this point, the learner can verbalize the process (describe it, if

asked) and might be

able to perform at least a crude approximation of the procedure.

the performance of the procedure is smoothed

out. At this juncture, errors in the initial understanding of the procedure are

detected and deleted along with the need for verbal rehearsal.

the procedure is refined. It is at this level that the

procedure becomes automatic the procedure once called to mind by the learner is

automatically executed and takes very little of the available space in working

memory.

It is composed of physical procedures an individual

uses to negotiate daily life and to engage in complex physical activities for work and for recreation

Why is the psychomotor domain considered a type of knowledge in the New Taxonomy?

According to Bloom new version of taxonomy the knowledge, comprehension and application are the

lower order thinking skills and the last three which is analysis synthesis and evaluation are the higher

order thinking skills.

is a critical factor in thinking.

plays a key role in one’s ability to successfully engage in a new task.

By knowledge, we mean that the student can give evidence that he remembers

either by recalling or by recognizing some idea or phenomenon with which he has

had experience in the educational process

Bloom implicitly does not recognized the difference between knowledge and the mental operations that are

executed on knowledge, but he mixed the two in the basic structure of his taxonomy.