Talk:Benjamin Bloom

What about Mastery Learning?

In the Mastery learning article it mentions that Bloom was a major contributor, but nothing is mentioned in the article about Bloom. --Pordaria 13:34, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:24, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Information in text form, not just as an image

I think Bloom's taxonomy should be clearly listed in text form (maybe the six levels and the related verbs), not just as an image (Bloom's Wheel). This would make it more accessible (incluing for sighted people, given the small font size in the image).Gazilion (talk) 09:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Ontario's Ministry of Education

I am going to be bold remove the portions of the article with {{fact}} - I haven't seen any news reports, and there seem to be some guidelines available on the ministry's website - there just seems to be a lack of evidence for the claim. If someone finds evidence, I won't feel bad if you replace the statement. Psu256 (talk) 19:27, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

Copy and paste?

Much of this wikipedia article can be found verbatim here. The sentence "One of Bloom’s great talents was having a nose for what is significant" is taken in its entirety. Perhaps the author of this contributed the same to wikipedia? Mmoneypenny (talk) 19:55, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

While the text is a bit cheerleading, it's not uninteresting. Perhaps we should properly cite it. SaulPerdomo (talk) 04:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

It seems to be a case of double plagiarism. The text likely originates from this article by Eisner. We'll have to remove the content or properly quote and cite it. Nesbit (talk) 21:01, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

i've archived these two pdfs just for "safe-keeping":

• http://www.csus.edu/design/gphd/faculty/syllabus/yuki/GPHD30_Syllabus.pdf = http://www.webcitation.org/5zSX6gnd0
• http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/bloome.pdf = http://www.webcitation.org/5zSX7PhZt by Elliot W. Eisner.

If you look for "Eisner" in the CSUS text, you'll find that Eisner is referred to - on the top of page 8. It's not that obvious, but as far as the CSUS text goes, it could be debated whether the attribution is obvious enough or not - obvious quotation marks would have helped - but it looks to me more like insufficient clarity in citing rather than plagiarism, since the intention to give credit is present in the text. It seems like several other web pages reproduce the Eisner text, and attribute the source more obviously.

More important on the Wikipedia is any hint of copyright violation (legal point of view).

Here is an example in the Eisner/UNESCO original:

"One of the consequences of the categories in the taxonomy is that they not only serve as means through which evaluation tasks could be formulated, but also provide a framework for the formulation of the objectives themselves. Bloom was interested in providing a useful practical tool that was congruent with what was understood at that time about the features of the higher mental processes."

versus the present version of this Wikipedia article [1]:

"One of the consequences of the categories in this taxonomy is that they not only serve as means through which evaluation tasks can be formulated, but also provide a framework for the formulation of the objectives themselves. Bloom was interested in providing a useful practical tool that was congruent with what was understood at that time about the features of the higher mental processes."

i've bolded the one word that was changed.

The UNESCO/Eisner text is distributed under a copying-allowed-at-zero-cost, attribution-required licence, "may be reproduced free of charge as long as acknowledgement is made of the source". Since this does not explicitly allow modifications, does not explicitly allow third-party redistribution, and forbids does not state that it allows commercial usage, there's no way that it can pass Wikipedia free-licensing requirements. This talk page section has been up for nearly two years, so IMHO there's no longer any justification for leniency in not tagging parts of this article as a copyvio. Boud (talk) 13:16, 15 June 2011 (UTC) (minor correction Boud (talk) 07:25, 16 June 2011 (UTC))

Tagged. Boud (talk) 13:31, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

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Update

Aside from the new information I added, I also deleted the caption asking for confirmation whether the photo is indeed Bloom. The individual in the current image is the same Bloom identified in the book, Instructional Patterns: Strategies for Maximizing Student Learning (ISBN: 0761928243), p. 156. Darwin Naz (talk) 23:53, 12 March 2019 (UTC)

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