What Do Your Students Need To Know?
The GED 2002 Social Studies Test emphasizes:
- content in history, civics, and government
- visual processing skills
- higher-order thinking skills
You are familiar with the content areas of the Social Studies Test, but what are higher-order
thinking skills? Remember Bloom’s Taxonomy of Cognitive Learning? Bloom identified different levels of
thinking skills. The first level is knowledge, followed by comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis,
and evaluation. Need a refresher? Click on the following link for information on Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Overview of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
Or, if you prefer to find resources on your own, take a few minutes to do a quick Internet
keyword search for Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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