"Most teachers are familiar with [Bloom's] taxonomy; it is used ubiquitously as a basis for mark-schemes. Yet little attention has ever been given to what the taxonomy can really do for the practising teacher. The books currently out there are few and far between. Those that do exist tend to focus on the theory behind the taxonomy, giving no account of its practical use in the classroom. This book changes all that. It is the first attempt to systematically analyse the taxonomy with the classroom teacher in mind. Through everything that follows, I have one guiding aim: to look at the taxonomy from the teacher's perspective and to show what it can do. In the pages ahead, we travel far and wide, covering all the areas where the taxonomy is most useful. Chapters 1 and 2 set the scene by providing an overview of the taxonomy's development and an explanation of how it works. Chapter 3 examines knowledge and comprehension in detail -- the first two levels of the taxonomy -- looking at what they are and how we can use them in practice. Chapter 4 moves onto the next two levels -- application and analysis -- to repeat the trick. And we then go again, for a third and final time, in chapter 5, where we turn to synthesis and evaluation. At this point the focus shifts. In the remainder of the book we examine how to apply the taxonomy in specific settings"--Introduction.