How many levels are in Bloom's Taxonomy?

Bloom's Taxonomy consists of six levels of cognitive processes that educators use to classify learning objectives and outcomes. These levels are designed to foster higher-order thinking skills, moving from basic recall of facts to more complex analytical and evaluative skills. The six levels are:

1. Remembering - recalling basic facts and concepts.

2. Understanding - explaining ideas or concepts.

3. Applying - using information in new situations.

4. Analyzing - breaking information into parts to explore understandings and relationships.

5. Evaluating - justifying a decision or course of action.

6. Creating - producing new or original work.

This hierarchical structure emphasizes advancing through progressively more complex levels of understanding and application, making it a fundamental framework in education for setting goals and assessing student learning. The distinction of these six levels is what confirms the answer as correct, reflecting the conceptualization laid out by Benjamin Bloom and his colleagues in 1956, later revised in the 2001 update which maintained the six categories but modified some names and ordered them differently.