Designing Elementary Instruction and Assessment: Using the Cognitive Domain

A practical guide for creating standards-based objectives and assessments aligned with Bloom s Taxonomy!

This user-friendly resource gives teachers clear, step-by-step guidelines for writing measurable objectives and developing appropriate formative and summative assessments to guide instruction in the elementary classroom. Providing detailed examples for all levels of Bloom s Taxonomy, the authors cover unit and daily instructional objectives based on state and national content standards as well as all the major forms of assessment. Teachers discover how to:

• Deconstruct the standards and write concrete objectives
• Create true-false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, and multiple choice exercises
• Write short-answer questions and essay items
• Use performance-based assessments and portfolios