Bloom's+and+the+Three+Storey+Intellect

A colleague has given me an excellent poster she has developed on the three storey intellect. toc

As a taxonomy of higher and lower order thinking, it is a clean and simple model. =Background= The three storey intellect was inspired Oliver Wendell Holmes. “//There are one-storey intellects, two-storey intellects, and three-storey intellects with skylights. All fact collectors who have no aim beyond their facts are one-storeymen. Two-storey men compare, reason, generalize, using the labor of fact collectors as their own. Three-storey men idealize, imagine, predict--their best illumination comes from above the skyligh//t.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Art Costa, adapted this for education. The storey allows students to recognize the various levels of thinking. The 3 layers or stories can be generally matched to the six levels of Blooms taxonomy. The match is not 2, 2, 2 as you may note below. The three levels in the Three storey intellect are: Where Bloom's Taxonomy has six levels within the taxonomy: The fit is not perfect but its pretty good. It is useful to compare these two models because =Comparision= I have created this chart as a image to be consistent with the table alignment. Click on the attached file for a PDF version
 * Gathering information (lower order thinking)
 * Processing information
 * Applying Information (higher order thinking)
 * Remember (lower order thinking)
 * Understand
 * Apply
 * Analyse
 * Evaluate
 * Create (Higher order thinking)
 * it reinforces the value of each arrangement
 * it links two popular models of thinking
 * it compares a simpler model, the 3 Storey intellect, to a more complex model, Bloom's Taxonomy
 * it makes it easier to move between models

//created by A Churches//

[|image source: http://www.iwebquest.com/webquestcourse/intellect.htm] =Resources and Links:=

http://www.esc13.net/socialstudies/3story.html [|http://www.adrian.edu/~fdetwiler/local/ctwg/threestory.htm] http://www.iwebquest.com/webquestcourse/intellect.htm