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- B. S. Bloom was a psychologist who studied and defined how people think.
- He broke thinking in to 5 levels of complexity that form a pyramid.
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- Each level required using the level below it
- Knowledge is the lowest level. Memorizing textbook definitions is an
example.
- Comprehension is the next level.
Being able to put definitions in your own words.
- Application is next and it shows that you can put what you have learned
into a new situation
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- Analysis is breaking the information into meaningful pieces.
- Synthesis is being able to put information together to generate new
learning
- And last is evaluation. Using all the information, making and defending
value judgments about the information.
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- In the past, many of your classes relied on
memorization.
- Chemistry focuses on the higher levels of thinking.
- I don’t ask you to memorize a lot
of terms
- I ask you to learn processes and techniques and then apply them to novel
situations
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