COGNITIVE DOMAIN
PREPARED BY:
MAIEL NOBLEZA SAMSON
EVALUATION
SYNTHESIS
ANALYSIS
APPLICATION
COMPREHENSION
KNOWLEDGE
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
KNOWLEDGE:
 Recognizes students’ ability to use rote memorization and
recall certain facts. Test questions focus on identification
and recall information.
 Sample verbs of stating specific learning outcomes:
Cite
Define
Identify
Label
List
Match
Name
Recognize
Reproduce
Select
State
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
COMPREHENSION:
 Involves students’ ability to read course content,
interpret important anformation and put other’s ideas into
words. Test questions should focus on the use of facts
rules, and principles.
 Sample verbs of stating specific learning outcomes:
Classify
Give examples
Convert
Describe
Distinguish between
Reproduce
Interpret
Summarize
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
APPLICATION:
 Students take new concepts and apply them to new
situation. Test questions focus on applying facts and
principles.
 Sample verbs of stating specific learning outcomes:
Apply
Arrange
Compute
Relate
Construct
Demonstrate
Discover
Show
Extend
Operate
Predict
Solve
Use
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
ANALYSIS:
 Students have the ability to take new information and
break it down into parts and differentiate between them.
The test questions focus on separation of a whole into
component parts.
 Sample verbs of stating specific learning outcomes:
Analyze
Associate
Determine
Diagram
Differentiate
Discriminate
Distinguish
Estimate
Point out
Infer
Outline
Separate
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
SYNTHESIS:
 Students are able to take various pieces of information
and form a whole creating a pattern where one did not
previously exist. Test question focuses on combining new
ideas to form a new whole.
 Sample verbs of stating specific learning outcomes:
Combine
Compile
Compose
Construct
Create
Design
Develop
Formulate
Integrate
Modify
Revise
Rewrite
Tell
Write
COGNITIVE DOMAIN
EVALUATION:
 Involves students’ to look at someone else’s ides or
principles and the worth of the work and the value of the
conclusion.
 Sample verbs of stating specific learning outcomes:
Appraise
Conclude
Evaluate
Support
Assess
Contrast
Judge
Compare
Criticize
Justify