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Blooms Research and Response Paper Jeremy Shur NUR/427 March 2, 2015 University of Phoenix Blooms Research and Response Paper One of the essential goals of continuing education in nursing is to enhance nurses' ability to improve patient care outcomes. Toward this goal, learners need to transfer learned knowledge to actual practice. Achieving efficient transfer requires knowledge of thinking paradigms in relation to specific subject content. Educators can facilitate knowledge transfer by developing instructional designs that incorporate subject content and cognitive processes related to the use of the topic content. Bloom's Taxonomy provides a framework for meeting this educational need. (Contin, 2011). Benjamin Bloom identified three…show more content…
This includes the recall or recognition of specific facts, procedural patterns, and concepts that serve in the development of intellectual abilities and competencies. There are six major categories starting from the simplest behavior to the most complex. The groups can be thought of as degrees of difficulties. The first skill must be mastered before the next skill can take place. The categories in the cognitive domain are, remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create. Under the category of remember, learners are expected to retrieve relevant information from long-term memory. Under the category of understand, learners are expected to meaning from oral, written or graphic information. Under the category of apply, students carry out or use a procedure by using those concepts in creating teaching plans for real life situations. Under the category of analyze, learners break material into parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and the overall structure. Under the category of evaluate, learners are expected to make judgments based on criteria and standards. Under the category of create, learners recognize or put elements together to form a new structure or pattern (Larkin & Burton,

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