American educational psychologist at the University of Chicago whose committee work produced Bloom's Taxonomy, classifying educational goals across cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. He later contributed influential research on mastery learning and the development of exceptional talent.
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Nationality / Culture Defining ContributionLed the committee that produced Bloom's Taxonomy (1956), a hierarchical classification of cognitive, affective and psychomotor learning objectives that remains the standard framework for writing instructional goals and assessments. 1 Notable WorkTaxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956) 1 Connections
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Bloom earned his doctorate at Chicago and remained on its faculty for his whole career, developing Bloom's Taxonomy there.
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Theories and Approaches Developed
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Bloom formally proposed mastery learning in 1968.
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developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956
Associated With: University of Chicago, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bloom, biography section
He received a doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1942 and joined its faculty in 1944.
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Bloom's taxonomy emerged from a 1948 meeting of university educators, chaired by Benjamin Bloom, who brainstormed a theoretical model of learning.
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the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class
Instructional Theory (Wikipedia)
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Instructional theory is heavily influenced by the 1956 work of Benjamin Bloom, a University of Chicago professor, and the results of his Taxonomy of Education Objectives-one of the first modern codifications of the learning process.
Wikipedia: Universal Design for Learning
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In particular, the work of Lev Vygotsky and, less directly, Benjamin Bloom informed the three-part UDL framework.
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