Bloom's Taxonomy Question Stems

Bloom’s Taxonomy provides an important framework for teachers to use to focus on higher order thinking. By providing a hierarchy of levels, this taxonomy can assist teachers in designing performance tasks, crafting questions for conferring with students, and providing feedback on student work. You can also begin to teach students how to develop their own good questions and how to determine whether a question is lower level or higher level.

Here are 2 lists of question stems to help you develop questions at progressively higher levels on Bloom's Taxonomy. Use the keywords as guides to structuring questions and tasks.

Question Stems