BENJAMIN SAMUEL BLOOM

BENJAMIN BLOOM

"Education must be increasingly concerned about the fullest development of all children and youth, and it will be the responsibility of the schools to seek learning conditions which will enable each individual to reach the highest level of learning"

- Benjamin Bloom

Benjamin Samuel Bloom (1913 –1999) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery learning. He is noted for developing the comprehensive system of describing and assessing educational outcomes in the mid-1950s. In 1956, Benjamin Bloom published a framework for categorizing educational goals: Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Familiarly known as Bloom’s Taxonomy which promotes higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating rather than just remembering facts.