Table 3 Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: Knowledge (Cognitive), Skills (Psychomotor) and Attitude (Affective) Domains
From: The need for national medical licensing examination in Saudi Arabia
Knowledge (Cognitive) [28] | Skills (Psychomotor) [47] | Attitudes (Affective) [48] |
|---|---|---|
1. Knowledge: recall or recognize information | 1. Perception: uses sensory cues to guide actions | 1. Receiving: demonstrates a willingness to participate in the activity |
2. Comprehension: translate, interpret, extrapolate but not see full implications | 2. Set: demonstrates a readiness to take action to perform the task | 2. Responding: shows interest in the activity by seeking it out |
3. Application: apply abstraction or general principles to concrete situations | 3. Guided response: knows steps required to complete the task | 3. Valuing: internalizes an appreciation for the activity |
4. Analysis: separation of a complex idea into parts and understanding of relationship between the parts. | 4. Mechanism: performs task in a somewhat confident, proficient, and habitual manner | 4. Organization: begins to compare different values and resolves conflicts between them to form an internally consistent system of values |
5. Synthesis: creative, mental construction of ideas from multiple sources to form complex ideas into a new integrated and meaningful pattern. | 5. Complex overt response: performs task in a confident, proficient, and habitual manner | 5. Characterization by a value: adopts a long-term value system that is "pervasive, consistent, and predictable". |
6. Evaluation: to make a judgment of ideas using external evidence or self-selected criteria substantiated by observations or informed rationalizations. | 6. Adaptation: performs task as above, but can modify actions to account for new situations | Â |
| Â | 7. Origination: creates new tasks or objectives incorporating learned ones. | Â |