Affective Domain - Bloom's Taxonomy
Affective Category / Example and Key Words (verbs) Receiving Phenomena: Awareness, willingness to hear, selected attention. Examples: Listen to others with respect. Listen for and remember the name of newly introduced people.
• Observable ‐ Does the learning objective identify what students will be able to do after the topic is covered? • Measurable ‐ Is it clear how you would test achievement of the learning objective? Can students reasonably determine from the objective whether or not they have achieved it?
The key here is to use verbs that indicate a clearly observable and measurable action. Appropriate action verbs for the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains are listed below.
Affective Domain This list of action verbs can be used in the development of program-level outcomes or course-level learning objectives in the affective domain
The affective domain (Krathwohl, Bloom, Masia, 1973) includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally, such as feelings, values, appreciation, enthusiasms, motivations, and attitudes. The five major categories are listed from the simplest behavior to the most complex:
Bloom’s Taxonomy Verb List AFFECTIVE DOMAIN Receiving Responding Valuing Organization Internalizing ask accept responsibility associate with adhere to act choose answer assume responsibility alter change behavior follow assist believe in arrange develop code of behavior give comply be convinced classify develop philosophy
Benjamin Bloom created a taxonomy of measurable verbs to help us describe and classify observable knowledge, skills, attitudes, behaviors and abilities. The theory is based upon the idea that there are levels of observable actions that indicate something is happening in the brain (cognitive activity.)