Questions for assessing higher-order cognitive skills: it's not just Bloom's.

ABSTRACT: We present an exploratory study of biologists' ideas about higher-order cognition questions. We documented the conversations of biologists who were writing and reviewing a set of higher-order cognition questions. Using a qualitative approach, we identified the themes of these conversations. Biologists in our study used Bloom's Taxonomy to logically analyze questions. However, biologists were also concerned with question difficulty, the length of time required for students to address questions, and students' experience with questions. Finally, some biologists demonstrated an assumption that questions should have one correct answer, not multiple reasonable solutions; this assumption undermined their comfort with some higher-order cognition questions. We generated a framework for further rese

SUBMITTER: Lemons PP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3587855 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature