What is Bloom’s Taxonomy? In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid ...

Quality Matters Standard 3.1 is one of the alignment standards and is an essential (required) standard. It states, “The assessments measure the achievement of the stated learning objectives or ...

In two preceding Fruits of Education columns, we described several tools for organizing training: the 6Ws, learning objectives, the creation and use of agendas, KSAs (knowledge, skills and abilities), ...

When you begin creating a course, you want to design with the end in mind. The best way to approach this is to start by writing measurable course learning objectives. Course learning objectives are ...

We’ve all been told that learning works like climbing a ladder. You start on the bottom rung with “basic” skills, climb upward through progressively “advanced” ones, and eventually reach the top. But ...

To conclude our series on tools for organizing training, we consider a computer tool for developing learning objectives. Recall that a learning objective is a statement that describes the specific ...