Program Outcomes
To answer whether our graduates have met our learning expectations, our degree and certificate programs identify what students need to know and be able to do as a result of completing a degree program.
Degree and certificate programs have identified their program outcomes and are submitted to the Office of Assessment and Program Review.
Blooms Taxonomy Revised: A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing
Benjamin Bloom and colleagues (1956) created the original taxonomy of the cognitive domain for categorizing level of abstraction of questions that commonly occur in educational settings. That work has been revised to help teachers understand and implement a standards-based curriculum (Anderson & Krathwol, 2001). For the instructional designer, the taxonomy provides a comprehensive set of classifications for learner cognitive processes that are included in instructional objectives. Classifying instructional objectives using the taxonomy helps to determine the levels of learning included in an instructional unit or lesson.
| Categories/Skill |
Cognitive Process / Sample prompts |
Purpose |
Level |
| Remembering |
Retrieve relevant knowledge from long-term memory
recognize, list, describe, identify, retrieve, name
|
memorize and recall facts |
Lower |
| Understanding |
Construct meaning from instructional messages, including oral, written, and graphic communication
describe, explain, estimate, predict
|
understand and interpret meaning |
Lower |
| Applying |
Carry out or use a procedure in a given situation
implement, carry out, use, apply, show, solve
|
apply knowledge to new situations |
Lower |
| Analyzing |
Break material into its constituent parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and to an overall structure or purpose
compare, organize, cite differences, deconstruct
|
break down or examine the information |
Higher |
| Evaluating |
Make judgments based on criteria and standards
check, critique, judge hypotheses, conclude, explain
|
judge or decide according to a set of criteria |
Higher |
| Creating |
Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganize elements into a new pattern or structure |
design, construct, plan, produce |
Higher |