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GUIDELINES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING TAXONOMY
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
Level
C1: Remembering
C2: Understanding
C3: Applying
C4: Analyzing
C5: Evaluating
C6: Creating
Retrieving, recognizing,
and recalling relevant
knowledge from long-
term memory
Constructing meaning
from oral, written, and
graphic messages
through interpreting,
exemplifying,
classifying,
summarizing, inferring,
comparing, and
explaining
Carrying out or using a
procedure through
executing, or
implementing
Breaking material into
constituent parts,
determining how the
parts relate to one
another and to an
overall structure or
purpose through
differentiating,
organizing and
attributing
Making judgments
based on criteria and
standards through
checking and critiquing
Putting elements
together to form a
coherent or functional
whole: reorganizing
elements into a new
pattern or structure
through generating,
planning, or producing
Arrange, Underline,
Label, Name,
Enumerate, List, State,
Indicate, Define, Reads,
Describe, Record,
Memorize, Recall,
Repeat
Infer, Review, Explain,
Report, Rewrite, Select,
Estimate, Distinguish,
Describe, Trace,
Identify, Classify,
Indicate, Discuss,
Recognize, Translate,
Give example, Defend,
Summarize,
Paraphrase, Locate
Change, Apply,
Manipulate, Teach,
Illustrate, Use, Report,
Determine, Solve,
Construct, Write,
Interpret, Organize,
Provide, Employ,
Discriminate,
Distinguish,
Differentiate, Analyze,
Solve, Test, Debate,
Compare, Contrast,
Diagram, Determine,
Criticize, Prioritize,
Categorize, Experiment,
Sub divide, Calculate,
Questions, Illustrate,
Appraise, Relate,
Examiner
Select, Value,
Enumerate, Interpret,
Predict, Attach,
Reframe, Choose,
Evaluate, Estimate,
Conclude, Revise,
Judge, Support,
Compare, Measure,
Critique, Decide,
Defend, Rate, Grade,
Criticize, Appraise,
Contrast, Justify,
Assess, Score, Argue
Assemble, Formulate,
Combine, Propose, Set
up, Collect, Design,
Rearrange, Modify,
Anticipate, Compile,
Devise, Compose,
Adapt, Explain, Manage,
Intervene, Arrange,
Categorize, Reorganize,
Structure, Validate,
Substitute, Generate,
Integrate, Express,
Perform, Plan, Prepare,
Negotiate, Model, Write,
Develop, Construct,
Create
