Preface
About the Authors
1. The Need for a Revision of Bloom′s Taxonomy
2. The Knowledge Domains
3. The Three Systems of Thinking
4. The New Taxonomy and the Three Knowledge Domains
5. The New Taxonomy as a Framework for Objectives, Assessments, and
State Standards
6. The New Taxonomy as a Framework for Curriculum and Thinking
Skills
Epilogue
References
Index
Robert J. Marzano is senior scholar at Mid-continent Research for
Education and Learning (McREL) in Aurora, Colorado, associate
professor at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin,
and president of Marzano & Associates in Centennial, Colorado. He
is the author of 25 books, 150 articles and chapters in books, and
100 sets of curriculum materials for teachers and students in
Grades K–12. His works include What Works in Schools: Translating
Research Into Action, School Leadership That Works, Building
Background Knowledge for Academic Achievement, Classroom Management
That Works, Classroom Instruction That Works, Classroom Assessment
and Grading That Work, and A Different Kind of Classroom: Teaching
With Dimensions of Learning.
During his 35 years in public education, Marzano has worked in
every state multiple times as well as in a host of countries in
Europe and Asia. The central theme in his work has been translating
research and theory into practical programs and tools for K–12
teachers and administrators.
John S. Kendall is a senior director in research at McREL, where he
directs a technical assistance unit that develops and provides
standards-related services for schools, districts, states, and
other organizations.
An internationally recognized expert in the development and
improvement of standards for education, Kendall has consulted for
more than 50 school districts and 14 state departments of education
as well as education agencies in the U.S. territories and abroad.
He has authored or coauthored six books and more than 30
monographs, technical studies, and articles published by American
School Board Journal, Association for Supervision and Curriculum
Development, and National Association of School Boards, among
others. He received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Kendall’s current research and technical assistance efforts include
working with clients to establish performance standards for the
classroom, developing standards for principals, and identifying the
knowledge and skills that help students learn.
"Provides educators with a crisp, new lens to re-examine thinking
and learning. Motivation and metacognition, two critical
components, are now strategically and meaningfully integrated in a
new taxonomy. This revised hierarchy takes us beyond Bloom toward a
better understanding of educational theory and practice."
*Virginia Cotsis, Secondary Curriculum Specialist*
"Marzano′s Taxonomy will be of immediate and lasting use to
curriculum developers, researchers, preparers of teachers and
leaders, and practitioners involved in all aspects of
standards-based learning. Timely, clearly written, easy to follow,
and filled with strong examples and connections to Bloom′s
Taxonomy."
*Doug Harris, Co-Director*
"Educational leaders wishing to infuse greater complexity, rigor
and substance into the curriculum will immerse themselves in The
New Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. The beneficiaries will be
teachers who will reach beyond their current achievements and
students who will develop the intellectual prowess required to
master the intricacies, dichotomies, and ambiguities of life in the
21st and 22nd centuries."
*Arthur L. Costa, Professor Emeritus*
"Profound in its insights and challenging in its implications,
Marzano′s Taxonomy will influence teaching, assessment, and
accountability in every school. The authors force us to confront
the gulf between current standards and testing regimes and the
opportunity for sustained learning for which the Marzano′s Taxonomy
will be the framework."
*Douglas Reeves, CEO and Founder*
"A masterful synthesis, incorporating extensive analysis of state
and national content standards with insights from cognitive
psychology to produce a more contemporary educational schema. Like
a new version of computer software, Marzano′s Taxonomy offers a
significant upgrade to the classic work of Benjamin Bloom and his
colleagues."
*Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant*
"Provides fresh ideas and a set of ′thinking protocols′ to help us
remember that a primary focus in education must be to develop the
mental abilities of our students."
*Lynn Erickson, Curriculum Design Consultant*
"A potent tool for designing educational objectives, developing
assessments, making state standards more useful to teachers and
students, designing curriculum, and formulating a thinking skills
curriculum."
*Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor of Educational Leadership,
Foundations, & Policy*
"Marzano and Kendall provide the necessary ingredients to help
fulfill the rhetoric that all kids can learn—and at a high level of
thinking! This book informs work on standards at the state and
local levels and provides clear examples to assist teachers in
their curriculum and assessment design work."
*Bena Kallick, Educational Consultant & Vice President*
"Offers the field of education a well researched, well developed
theory of curriculum design and assessment. Guidelines for
expanding and extending student learning far surpass previous books
of its kind."
*Carol M. Roberts, Professor of Organizational Leadership*
"A pioneering approach to critical and higher order thinking skills
with implications for designing educational objectives, framing
curricula design, and implementing national standards and
assessments. To prepare elementary and secondary school teachers
for teaching a thinking-based curriculum, this book should be part
of every undergraduate and graduate teaching program across the
country."
*Douglas Llewellyn, Professor, Science Education*
"Marzano′s Taxonomy skillfully advances the concepts, categories,
and conversations related to educational objectives, and equips
learners and teachers with an interconnected and comprehensive
design for processing and expressing thoughts, words, and
actions."
*Nancy P. Gallavan, Associate Dean & Professor*
"Marzano and Kendall provide a critical, theoretically consistent
overview of educational objectives with detailed examples of
assessment frameworks that bring the ′new′ taxonomy to life. The
focus on curriculum design that embeds rigorous assessment is a
helpful contribution to a new generation of educators challenged to
implement content standards for student learning."
*Michelle Collay, Associate Professor*
"Useful not only for teachers in addressing objectives, standards,
and classroom assessment, but also for other educators as they
formulate objectives, develop strategies, and determine the
knowledge necessary to improve the educational system in
general."
*Carolyn J. Wood, Professor of Educational Leadership*
"Marzano and Kendall provide a clear, practical model for educators
to follow when developing objectives, assessments, and lessons to
improve student achievement. Teachers, teacher leaders, curriculum
specialists, and administrators will all find this new taxonomy an
essential resource!"
*Ellen Kottler, Lecturer*
"Fully reflects the impressive advancements in the last few
decades. Marzano′s Taxonomy provides educators with a practical
tool to improve the effectiveness of their teaching and their
students′ learning by helping educators more explicitly frame
educational objectives and assessment, use state standards, and
design general and thinking-skills curricula."
*Dale W. Lick, Professor*
"A clearly practical model that becomes a very powerful tool for
educators. The concept sizzles with innovation."
*Carolyn Orange, Professor of Educational Psychology*
"Rich and theory-based, incorporating what we have learned about
knowledge, thinking, and cognition in the last 50 years. Also quite
practical, demonstrating how this new taxonomy can be used as a
framework for standards, assessments, and curriculum."
*Carol A. Bartell, Assistant Director*
"Marzano and Kendall haven′t simply revised Bloom′s Taxonomy. They
have forged a thoroughly researched groundwork for numerous
educational uses."
*Gregg E. Humphrey, Director of Elementary Education*
"Provides clear examples of how the new taxonomy helps educators
develop a common language and framework to connect standards with
specific rubrics and techniques that teachers can use to help their
students reach for mastery."
*Raymond Terrell, Assistant Dean for Research and Diversity*
"This text is astoundingly important. A serious must-read for
understanding global issues in developing educational
objectives."
*Caroline R. Pryor, Assistant Professor and Wye Fellow*
"Presents material in a manner that seduces readers to want to read
on and gather more data so that they can understand and apply
the new taxonomies."
*Robert L. Wyatt III, Professor Emeritus*
"A real contribution to the field of education. Provides a
well-defined platform for making critical learning skills the basis
of skilled-based instruction."
*Concha Delgado Gaitan, Independent Researcher and Writer*
"Offers the field of education a well-researched, well-developed
theory of curriculum design and assessment. Here is a practical
model that becomes a powerful tool for educators; it will enhance
the effectiveness of teaching and deepen the learning of
students."
*SirReadaLot.org, February 2007*
"As professional learning communities try to look at new ideas,
this volume requires more than a passing glance or reference. It is
certain to challenge your ideas about education."
*Teacher Librarian, April 2007*
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