Ömer Gökhan ULUM, Dinçay KÖKSAL

Bloom Taksonomisi aracılığıyla dil değerlendirmesi

Bloom taksonomisi üst ve alt düzey bilişsel becerilerin ölçülmesine yarayan ölçme araçlarında görülür. Öğrencilerin taksonomi basamaklarında nasıl uzmanlaştıklarını değerlendirmek önemli olduğundan, bu çalışmada Bloom taksonomisinin üst ve alt düzey basamakları sunularak, genel İngilizce dersi sınav sorularının üst ve alt düzey bilişsel seviyelere dayanıp dayanmadığı açığa çıkarılmıştır. Bu çalışma nitel ve nicel veri toplama tekniklerine dayanmaktadır. Çalışmanın bulguları analiz edilen sınav sorularının Bloom taksonominde yer alan yüksek düzey bilişsel becerilerden yoksun olduğunu göstermiştir. Bulgular aracılığıyla yazılmakta olan ve yazılacak olan sınav sorularının Bloom taksonomisini nasıl kapsaması gerektiği konusunda varsayımlara ulaşılmıştır.

Language assessment through Bloom’s Taxonomy

Benjamin Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives plays a crucial role in developing assessments thatmeasure higher and lower level cognitive skills. Since it is important to assess how well students master theinformation within the levels of the taxonomy, the present study first presents the higher and lower levels ofBloom's taxonomy and then seeks to investigate whether the exam questions of General English courses arebased on both higher and lower order thinking levels. This study was carried out through qualitative methods ofdata collection. The findings of the study suggested that the analyzed exam papers lacked the higher levelcognitive skills contained in Bloom’s Taxonomy. Based on the findings, some assumptions have been made withthe aim of suggesting how the exam papers which are being written or will be written should refer to Bloom’staxonomy.

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