I cannot stress how much all of us involved in education, either on the teaching or on the learning side of things, should have some knowledge of Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning.One of the biggest problems is that learners do not understand what level of knowledge is required of them and tutors don't know what level of knowledge they are required to teach to.
All too often, in the past, it has been left up to the individual tutor to "know" what level of understanding is required. But over time we have all drifted in our various directions so we are all teaching and learning to different levels.
Sounds alarming? It should do!
This is one of the reasons why the development of standards seems to be pre-occupying those at the top of the NHS and Blood Transfusion. If you have a well written standard then everybody should know what is expected of them - they would do if thy understood the learning levels as outlined by Bloom.
So take a bit of time to have a look at the diagram and understand what the different levels required of the learner as far as understanding what they are doing.
If we know what the target is then we can have a good idea of how we are progressing towards our goal (and if we are not then we have a better idea of what we need to do to get back on track again).
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