Benjamin Bloom along with a team of psychologists created Bloom's Taxonomy as a means to classify behaviors as they associate to levels of learning. Each level in Bloom's Taxonomy is independent of the next and they build upon each other towards the ultimate goal of higher order evaluating and synthesis of knowledge. In the 90's, Lorin Anderson, a student of Bloom, updated Bloom's Taxonomy changing the words from nouns to verbs to explain the intake of information. This link provides a more detailed look at the first and updated versions of Bloom's Taxonomy.(Heer, 2000)
ww2.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/Bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm
Learning objectives should refer back to Bloom's Taxonomy to show the depth of each lesson and the potential for students to grow and learn throughout a semester. The link below shows a graphic that explains the cognitive processes as they are paired with the knowledge dimension. The graphic is interactive as well, showing more information as you move the mouse over the blocks.
www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching/RevisedBlooms1.html
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