The Bloom's Deception

Cognitive load theory and a possible explanation for why we don't understand how much we know

There are two Bloom’s taxonomies. The first is the actual taxonomy developed by Benjamin Bloom and colleagues in 1956. A taxonomy is a naming system and what Bloom’s taxonomy names is different types of learning objective. The taxonomy consists of three domains - affective, psychomotor and cognitive - but it is the cognitive domain that most people tend…