Bloom's Domain of Learning

Level 3: Applying; is ability to use learned materials to new situations. This is LOTS.

Level 4: Analyzing; is ability to break information into parts to explore understanding and relationship. This part is Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)

Level 5: Evaluating; is ability to justify decisions, make judgements based on criteria and standard. This is HOTS.

Level 6: Creating; is ability to put all elements together to form a new product. This is the Highest level in Bloom's Taxonomy.

Each levels above are conceptually different and also arranged in hierarchical structure.

S.W.O.T. Analysis:

As part of my reflection, I will try to analyse Bloom's Taxonomy method by using S.W.O.T. Analysis:

Strengths (S): Bloom's Taxonomy is really helpful for both students and teachers to learn. The student are encouraged to be more engaged in higher order thinking.

Weaknesses (W): Some argues that the order of this taxonomy is inaccurate. When we learn, we do not always start from remembering, instead some of us learn from applying or sometimes creating. Like for the example, when  you learn to cook, you can not just learn by remembering the steps but for some of us, we will learn by actually do the cooking (applying) the skills. Sometimes, you  learn when you actually do it. 

Opportunities (O): The teachers are given opportunity to actually identify the intellectual level of the students in the teaching and learning process in the classroom.

Threats (T): The consistent application of Bloom's Taxonomy  is challenging. The measurement about knowledge is considered of lower order thinking (LOT) and everything above knowledge is higher order thinking (HOT). At the end, teachers and students might just focus on how to achieve higher order thinking (HOT) and ignoring the basic level, which is the lower order thinking (LOT).