Faculty Development Programme Report on Bloom's Taxonomy

Attended by: Around 50 faculties and technical staff from the School of ECE attended the FDP.

Dr G T Raju, Vice-Principal, Professor and Head of CSE, RNSIT, Bangalore is the resource person for this FDP. Dr G T Raju BE(CSE), ME(CSE), Ph.D. has 25 years of teaching, 1.5 years industry and 12 years research experience. His areas of research interest are Data Min-ing, Web Mining Image Processing, Prefetching and Caching, Information Retrieval. His publications are 65+ papers at reputed indexed International Journals, 45+ papers at reputed Intrrnational Conferences and 6 at National conferences. He has published 5 technical books and three patents. His other achievements are Best Teacher Award and Rajiv Gandhi Gold Medal.

The FDP focused on following key points:

• Faculty - Prepare and Practice using Bloom’s taxonomy.
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Intended Learning Outcomes
• Objective v/s Assessment Question
• Bloom’s taxonomy
• Implications of Bloom’s taxonomy
• Three domains /dimensions of learning
• Knowledge dimensions
• Bloom’s (1949) Taxonomy of Learning.
• Why use Bloom’s taxonomy?
• Old vs. Revised Taxonomy.
• Cognitive Processes and Levels of Knowledge Matrix
• Case study and Exercise.