How do Webb's Depth of Knowledge and Bloom's Revised Taxonomy compare?
Many of us are familiar with Bloom’s taxonomy (or Bloom’s revised) as a model of thinking about the depth of understanding we wish to help students build, but for this work we’ll focus on Webb’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK) as that is the model used within the Iowa Core. Both have their advantages for sure, but we have chosen to focus on DOK through our Iowa Core unit writing work.
Review the file below illustrating the comparison of these two ways to represent higher order thinking. Remember some of the tasks or prompts you have used with students and see where they are located on each of the models.
What are the ways in which you see these two models of higher order thinking are consistent with one another, and what are the ways you see them as inconsistent?
To help you do this comparison, you can think of a prompt or task you have used with students and analyze that prompt or task according to each model.
Or, you could differentiate between how the two models define higher order thinking.
To help you do this comparison, you can think of a prompt or task you have used with students and analyze that prompt or task according to each model.
Or, you could differentiate between how the two models define higher order thinking.