ABSTRACT
This is a taxonomy (a classification) that was developed in the 1950s but experienced a revival at the start of the twenty-first century and has now passed its fiftieth birthday. It was originally written (Bloom, 1956; Kratwohl et al., 1964) as a way of classifying different types of ‘educational objectives’, but now is often seen as a way of considering different types of learning and putting them into levels (a hierarchy). Bloom is usually given the credit for it but actually a team of five authors (all American males from Chicago) was jointly responsible, with a list of 34 others contributing between 1949 and 1956. Benjamin Bloom was fortunate in having the surname that came first in the alphabet.
