The New Taxonomy Of Educational Objectives

??"Educational leaders wishing to infuse greater complexity, rigor, and substance into the curriculum will immerse themselves in The New Taxonomy of educational Objectives. The benefactors 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 twenty-first and twenty second centuries."???Arthur L. Costa, Professor EmeritusCalifornia State University, Sacramento???Motivation and metacognition, two critical components, are now strategically and meaningfully integrated. This revised hierarchy takes us beyond Bloom toward a better understanding of educational theory and practice.??????Virginia Cotsis, Secondary Curriculum SpecialistVentura County Office of Education, Camarillo, CA"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 LeadershipFoundations& Policy, University of VirginiaA thoroughly updated guide to the nature of knowledge

Marzano's Taxonomy???the most current and comprehensive guide in 50 years to define the new standard for education???is a must-have resource for all directors of curriculum and instruction, directors of staff development, principals, and teachers. Developed by Robert Marzano and John??S. Kendall, internationally recognized experts in the development and improvement of standards for education, this field-tested and proven reference contains the most current research on the nature of knowledge and cognition and areflection of the movement to standards-based education. Based on three domains of knowledge: information, mental procedures, and psychomotor procedures; and six levels of processing: retrieval, comprehension, analysis, knowledge utilization, metacognition, and self-system thinking, this essential guide offers specific applications for: Designing and classifying educational objectivesCreating assessmentsRedesigning state and district-level standardsFormulating curriculumOutlining a thinking-skills curriculum

Robert Marzano, author of 25 books, 150 articles and chapters in books, and 100 sets of curriculum materials for teachers and students in grades K???12, is president of Marzano & Associates, senior scholar at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), and associate professor at Cardinal Stritch University.

John S. Kendall, senior director in research at Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL), has authored or co-authored six books and more than 30 articles.