Higher Order Thinking Skills


 


 

These are the kinds of questions that demonstrate higher order thinking skills:

COMPREHENSION: understanding information, translating knowledge into new context, interpreting facts, compaing, contrasing, infering cause, predicting consequences.

APPLICATION: use information, methods, concepts, & theories in new situations; solve problems using required skills or knowledge.

ANALYSIS: seeing pattern, organizing parts, recognizing hidden meaning, identifying components

SYNTHESIS: use old ideas to create new one, generalize from given facts, combine knowledge from several area, predict, draw conclusions.

EVALUATION: discriminate among ideas, assess value of theories or presentation, make choices based on reasoned argumen, verify value of evidenc, recognize subjectivity

 

This is a lower order thinking skill:

KNOWLEDGE

 

 

 

SOURCE:

Benjamin S. Bloom Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA., Copyright 1984 by Pearson Education. Adapted by permission of the publisher.