DAVE’S TAXONOMY
DOMAINS OF LEARNING
PSYCHO
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MOTOR
LEVELS OF DAVE’S TAXONOMY
NATURALIZATION
ARTICULATION
PRECISION
MANIPULATION
IMITATION
DAVE’S TAXONOMY LEVELS
ARTICULATION.
MANIPULATION
5
NATURALIZATION
3
PRECISION
1
IMITATION
4
2
Stage
Category or Stage
1
Imitation
Behavior
Description
Examples of
activities,
demonstrations,
and evidence of
learning
Action Verbs
Copy action Watch
Copy, follow,
of another teacher or
replicate,
trainer and
repeat,
repeat action,
adhere,
process, or
observe,
activity
identify,
mimic, try,
and imitate
Stage
Category or Stage
Behavior
Description
Examples of
activities,
demonstrations,
and evidence of
learning
Action Verbs
2
Manipulation
Reproduce
activity from
instructions
Carry out
task from
written or
verbal
instructions
Re-create,
build,
perform,
execute and
implement
Stage
Category or Stage
Behavior Description
3
Precision
Execute skill
reliably,
independent
of help
Examples of activities,
demonstrations, and
evidence of learning
Action Verbs
Perform a task or Demonstrate,
activity with
complete,
expertise and to
show,
high quality
perfect,
without
calibrate,
assistance or
control and
instruction; able
practice
to demonstrate
an activity to
other learners
Stage
Category or Stage
Behavior Description
Examples of activities,
demonstrations, and
evidence of learning
Action Verbs
4
Articulation
Adapt and
integrate
expertise to
satisfy a
non-standard
objective
Relate and
combine
associated
activities to
develop
methods to meet
varying, novel
requirements
Construct,
solve,
combine,
coordinate,
integrate,
adapt,
develop,
formulate,
modify,
master,
improve and
teach
Stage
Category or Stage
Behavior
Description
5
Naturalization
Automated,
unconscious
mastery of
activity and
related skills
at strategic
level
Examples of
activities,
demonstrations, and
evidence of learning
Action Verbs
Design, specify,
Define aim,
manage, invent,
approach,
project-manage
and strategy
for use of
activities to
meet strategic
need
Q1)
The doing aspect of behaviour falls in the
a) Cognitive domain
b) Affective domain
c) Psychomotor domain
d) Spiritual domain
Answer : c) Psychomotor domain
Q2)
Which action word does not belong to belong to Psychomotor
domain?
a)
b)
c)
d)
Mimic
Perform
Trace
Define
Answer : d) Define
Q3)
Out of the following Which is the correct order of the levels of
Psychomotor domain?
a) Imitation, Precision, Manipulation,Articulation and
Naturalization
b) Imitation, Articulation,Precision, Manipulation, and
Naturalization
c) Imitation, Manipulation,Precision,Articulation and
Naturalization
d) Imitation, Precision,Articulation, Manipulation and
Naturalization
Answer : c) Imitation, Manipulation,Precision,Articulation
and Naturalization