Important Facts regarding Bloom’s Life

Educational psychologist, Benjamin Bloom (February 21,1913 — September 13, 1999), was born in Pennsylvania in 1913, and spent the majority of his childhood reading and researching. After receiving his bachelors, masters, and a Ph.D. in education, he worked as a memeber of the University of Chicago Board of Examination for three years until becoming a university examiner. At this time, he was the head of a group of cognotive psychologists who concieved the foundation of the educational taxonomy. He later served many countries, such as Israel and India, as an educational advisor. His overall idea of education was to stress the importance human potential and how home environments and educational settings play a role in this potential. His greatest contrubution to the field of education was his classification of educational objectivs and the theory of mastery learning. He determined with mastery learning, that hard work is what leads to success rather than giftedness. He later published his theory through Bloom’s taxonomy which is able to empathize curriculum and instruction by using a hierarchy to discuss the skills that the student needs to achieve which stresses the need for prequestite knowlegde of lower skills before advancing to the higher skills. Bloom pased away in Chicago in 1999 at the age of 86. Though his life ended, his ideas and theory live on as a basis for educational instruction and assessment.