Bloom’s Taxonomy Revisited

Use this table as a reference for evaluating and making changes to aligned course activities and assessments (or, where possible, learning outcomes) that account for generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool capabilities and distinctive human skills.

All course activities and assessments will benefit from review given the capabilities of AI tools; those at the Remember and Analyze levels may be more likely to need amendment.

Table

Row 1: Create

Recommendation: Review

AI Capabilities: Suggest a range of alternatives, enumerate potential drawbacks and advantages, describe successful real-world cases

Distinctive Human Skill: Formulate original solutions incorporating human judgment, collaborate spontaneously

Row 2: Evaluate

Recommendation: Review

AI Capabilities: Identify pros and cons of various courses of action, develop rubrics

Distinctive Human Skill: Engage in metacognitive reflection, holistically appraise ethical consequences of alternative courses of action

Row 3: Analyze

Recommendation: Amend

AI Capabilities: Compare and contrast data, infer trends and themes, compute, predict

Distinctive Human Skill: Critically think and reason with the cognitive and affective domains, interpret and related to authentic problems, decisions, and choices

Row 4: Apply

Recommendation: Review

AI Capabilities: Make use of a process, model, or method to illustrate how to solve quantitative inquiry

Distinctive Human Skill: Operate, implement, conduct, execute, experiment, and test in the real world; apply creativity and imagination to idea and solution development

Row 5: Understand

Recommendation: Review

AI Capabilities: Describe a concept in different words, recognize a related example, translate

Distinctive Human Skill: Contextualize answers within emotional, moral, or ethical considerations

Row 6: Remember

Recommendation: Amend

AI Capabilities: Recall factual information, list possible answers, define a term, construct a basic chronology

Distinctive Human Skill: Recall information in situations where technology is not readily accessible

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