Learning Things - Learn to Play: Designing Tutorials for Video Games - page 54

Bloom's Ta xonomy

Critiquing, Supporting, Assessing

Evaluation

Composing, Constructing, Hypothesizing

Synthesis

Comparing, Dierentiating, Selecting

Analysis

Using, Doing, Applying

Application

Comprehension

Explaining, Summarizing

Knowledge

Listing, Naming, Identifying

Figure 3.4 Bloom's taxonomy diagram. (Figure courtesy of Peter Kalmar.)

Evaluation, however, require a much deeper understanding of the
content. This might involve understanding that one must jump and
shoot fireballs simultaneously in order to live through a particular
challenge. As we extrapolate knowledge we begin to experiment, and
it is this process that allows us to transfer knowledge between games
and across genres, which leads me back full circle to our currently
educated audience, the dual-edged problem and blessing that leads us
to the purpose of this topic.

Well, that's it. While by no means an exhaustive list of all the
cognitive theories of human learning, this chapter should give you a
basic primer on educational theory from 1920 onward as it applies to
game design. If you map educational outcomes to desired behaviors in
games, the writing, teaching, and evaluations are strikingly similar.