Ruiz uses Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in his Spanish class as an aid in creating his own course objectives. His belief is that Bloom's Taxonomy is beneficial to the teaching of a foreign language. To that end he tries to tailor a unit's objectives to one of Bloom's cognitive levels. For a unit in which one of the objectives is that all students thoroughly comprehend the material, which of the following would be an appropriate assessment?
A)An oral presentation in Spanish
B)A group performance in Spanish
C)An essay assignment in Spanish
D)A multiple-choice test in Spanish

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A multiple-choice test in Spanish. The definition of comprehension using Bloom's Taxonomy is that students will understand or use an idea but not necessarily relate it to other ideas or skills. A test can test for comprehension on a variety of levels whereas the other options call on students to transform and use their new knowledge, which is a higher order of cognition according to Bloom's Taxonomy.

Ruiz Uses Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives in His Spanish