LECTURE ABOUT THINKING SKILLS IN EDUCATION

Oerview: Introduction

Bloom’s revised Taxonomy and higher-order thinking

Summary:

This topic tell us about what is thinking and what is higher-order thinking all about. “Higher-order thinking by students involves the transformation of information and ideas. This transformation occurs when students combine facts and ideas and synthesize, generalize, explain, hypothesize or arrive at some conclusion or interpretation. Manipulating information and ideas through these processes allows students to solve problems, gain understanding and discover new meaning.” There is six levels in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy which is creating, evaluating, analysis, applying, understanding and remembering. Creating, evaluating and analysis are levels in higher-order thinking.