Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Bloom | |
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| Born | Benjamin Samuel Bloom February 21, 1913 |
| Died | September 13, 1999 (aged 86) |
| Nationality | United States citizen |
| Education | Ph.D. in Education |
| Alma mater | Pennsylvania State University, University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Educational psychologist |
| Employer | American Educational Research Association |
Benjamin Samuel Bloom (February 21, 1913 – September 13, 1999) was an American educational psychologist who made contributions to the classification of educational objectives and to the theory of mastery-learning. He also directed a research team which conducted a major investigation into the development of exceptional talent whose results are relevant to the question of eminence, exceptional achievement, and greatness.[1] In 1956, Bloom edited the first volume of Taxonomy of educational objectives: the classification of educational goals, which outlined a classification of learning objectives that has come to be known as Bloom's Taxonomy and remains a foundational and essential element within the educational community as evidenced in the 1981 survey Significant writings that have influenced the curriculum: 1906-1981, by H.G. Shane and the 1994 yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education. Bloom's Two Sigma problem is also named after him.
Further reading
- Bloom, Benjamin S. (1980). All Our Children Learning. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Bloom, Benjamin S. Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (1956). Published by Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA. Copyright (c) 1984 by Pearson Education.
- Bloom, B. S. (ed). (1985). Developing Talent in Young People. New York: Ballantine Books.
- Eisner, Eliot W. "Benjamin Bloom: 1913-1999." Prospects, the quarterly review of comparative education (Paris, UNESCO: International Bureau of Education), vol. XXX, no. 3, September 2000. Retrieved from http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/bloome.pdf on April 10, 2009.
- Torsten Husén, Benjamin S. Bloom, in: Joy A. Palmer (ed), Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present Day, London - New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 86–90.
References
- ^ Bloom, B. S. (ed). (1985). Developing Talent in Young People. New York: Ballantine Books.
