Higher order thinking skills can be assessed using tasks which provide opportunities for students to analyse, evaluate or create. Deductive reasoning in geometry requires these types of thinking skills.
Bloom's Revised Taxonomy classifies thinking skills into six levels.
- Remembering
- Understanding
- Applying
- Analysing
- Evaluating
- Creating
Assessment tasks need to provide clear information about student achievement whilst allowing students to access problems suited to their level of knowledge and experience.
You can read more about thinking skills in Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (74 KB PDF) of learning domains. This is a particularly helpful organisational and planning tool when designing assessment tasks in geometry.
