The oldest researched domain is the cognitive domain. This domain focuses on thinking. The foundation of the cognitive domain, referred to as “Bloom 's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain,” was researched throughout the 1940s and 1950s (Huitt). This taxonomy allows educators to format information into different levels to allow students to learn in a stepwise fashion. Bloom’s levels of the cognitive domain are: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Huitt). These levels are designed for a student to go from simply being able to memorize and recite information to being able to critique and justify that same material. This has been the standard for creating educational standards, exams, lesson plans and almost everything within standardized educations. Knowledge is what is assessed and this is the base of the
The oldest researched domain is the cognitive domain. This domain focuses on thinking. The foundation of the cognitive domain, referred to as “Bloom 's Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain,” was researched throughout the 1940s and 1950s (Huitt). This taxonomy allows educators to format information into different levels to allow students to learn in a stepwise fashion. Bloom’s levels of the cognitive domain are: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Huitt). These levels are designed for a student to go from simply being able to memorize and recite information to being able to critique and justify that same material. This has been the standard for creating educational standards, exams, lesson plans and almost everything within standardized educations. Knowledge is what is assessed and this is the base of the