Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: A Psychomotor Skills Extension for Engineering and Science Education

Bloom's taxonomy of educational objectives has been a useful tool for many educators over several decades. Bloom's taxonomy divided educational outcomes into three distinct domains: the cognitive, affective and psychomotor; it provided a hierarchical taxonomy of outcomes in each of the cognitive and affective domains. Several psychomotor taxonomies have been developed for the K-12 level of basic skills development. These taxonomies are not particularly helpful in relation to development of professional level psychomotor-related skills. This paper presents a theory of the nature of knowledge and a taxonomy of psychomotor domain outcomes adapted to trade and professional level skills involving the practical performance of work.