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Key verbs

To help you to write appropriate learning objectives for each domain we have provided a table with some key verbs you may like to consider using:

Cognitive (knowledge) Affective (attitudes) Psychomotor (skills)
Recognise, define, explain, report, discuss, critique, summarise, apply, develop, review, appraise, evaluate Discuss, question, contribute, interpret, consider, debate, argue, challenge, compare, contrast Replicate, re-create, demonstrate, perform, execute, show, solve, modify, master, manage


This is by no means an exhaustive list, for more please see http://www.businessballs.com/bloomstaxonomyoflearningdomains.htm

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