Which of the following is the highest level of cognitive ability?
Evaluating
Bloom's taxonomy arranges cognitive abilities in a hierarchy, each level demanding more of the learner than the one below it, so the answer is whichever listed level sits highest in that order.
The classical sequence runs knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. Of the four options given, knowing is the lowest - it asks only for recall of facts. Understanding comes next, requiring the learner to grasp meaning in their own words. Analysing is higher still, since it requires breaking material into parts and seeing how they relate. Evaluating stands above all of these because it requires the learner to judge the value of material against criteria, which presupposes that they can already recall, understand and analyse it.
That dependence is the key: one cannot evaluate an argument without first understanding and analysing it, so evaluation necessarily sits at the top of the four.
Hence the highest level of cognitive ability among those listed is evaluating.
Similar Questions
In the two sets given below, Set-I provides the different levels of learning according to Bloom's Taxonomy, while set-II gives their examples and concerns. Match the two sets and select from the options to indicate your answer:
Set-I (Levels of Learning) Set-II (Examples) (a) Memory level (iii) Recalling information (b) Understanding level (i) Identifying examples of a given concept (c) Analysing level (iv) Isolating information into parts (d) Creating level (ii) Generating new ideas
Important Questions from Objectives of Teaching
- Which is/are the objective/s of MLL in mathematics.
(I) Observes and examine some common characteristics of non-living things.
(II) Perform computations, with speed and accuracy.
(III) Recognize order and pattern. In the two sets given below, Set-I provides the different levels of learning according to Bloom's Taxonomy, while set-II gives their examples and concerns. Match the two sets and select from the options to indicate your answer:
Set-I (Levels of Learning) Set-II (Examples) (a) Memory level (iii) Recalling information (b) Understanding level (i) Identifying examples of a given concept (c) Analysing level (iv) Isolating information into parts (d) Creating level (ii) Generating new ideas - Which of the following is the correct order of teaching objectives?
'A child collects mathematical story books and reads.' Which type of learning objective it is ?
- When a student is able to draw geometrical figures neatly and accurately which objective of mathematics teaching is achieved ?
