Bloom’s Taxonomy

Common Description

Costa’s Levels of Intellectual Functioning

Knowledge

define, label, repeat, record, list, recall, memorize, relate, name

Comprehension

restate, discuss, describe, recognize, explain, express, identify, locate, report, review

Gathering Information

Input

tell, recall, define, observe, identify, describe, recognize, demonstrate,  connect, count, list, match, label, name, select, discuss

Application

demonstrate, dramatize, practice, operate, imply, schedule, apply, illustrate, translate, interpret

Analysis

debate, diagram, distinguish, compare, question, inventory, differentiate, criticize, solve, experiment

Thinking about the  Information

Process

sort, infer, analyze,  sequence, organize, distinguish, solve, explain, compare, contrast, group, classify, construct, relate, determine, differentiate, deduce, isolate,  specify, characterize, make analogies, reason

Synthesis

compose, design, propose, arrange, formulate, organize, assemble, prepare, construct

Evaluation

judge, rate, predict, assess, choose, evaluate, estimate, select, value, measure

Applying the Information to New Situations and Making Judgments

Output

conclude, criticize, reconstruct, reorganize, justify, judge, evaluate, imagine, predict, speculate, forecast, estimate, create, modify, generalize, theorize, make a model, extrapolate, apply a principal, interpret, hypothesize, if/then