Professor YK Lee’s MEMS/NEMS Group
Teaching --- Teaching, Learning and Research
Bloom's Taxonomy
(Source: http://www.officeport.com/edu/blooms.htm)
In 1956, Benjamin Bloom
headed a group of educational psychologists who developed a classification of
levels of intellectual behavior important in learning. Bloom found that over 95
% of the test questions students encounter require them to think only at the
lowest possible level...the recall of information. Bloom identified six levels
within the cognitive domain, from the simple recall or recognition of facts, as
the lowest level, through increasingly more complex and abstract mental levels,
to the highest order which is classified as evaluation. Verb examples that
represent intellectual activity on each level are listed here.
- Knowledge: arrange, define, duplicate, label, list, memorize, name, order, recognize, relate, recall, repeat, reproduce state.
- Comprehension: classify, describe, discuss, explain, express, identify, indicate, locate, recognize, report, restate, review, select, translate,
- Application: apply, choose, demonstrate, dramatize, employ, illustrate, interpret, operate, practice, schedule, sketch, solve, use, write
- Analysis: analyze, appraise, calculate, categorize, compare, contrast, criticize, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, examine, experiment, question, test.
- Synthesis: arrange, assemble, collect, compose, construct, create, design, develop, formulate, manage, organize, plan, prepare, propose, set up, write.
- Evaluation: appraise, argue, assess, attach, choose compare, defend estimate, judge, predict, rate, core, select, support, value, evaluate.
The lower levels of Blooms Taxonomy (knowledge, comprehension and
application) help us learn to replicate what has already been done elsewhere
while the higher levels of Blooms Taxonomy (analysis, synthesis and evaluation)
drive innovation. The current educational
system appears to focus only on equipping the lower levels of functionality by
using bounded problems with simple answers that can be quickly answered in
homework or exams and are easy to grade. (Prof Ian T. Fergusion, George
Institute of
The lesson about learning from Confucius in
He who learns without thinking will be bewildered, he who thinks without learning will be in danger.
Research Philosophy:
Right Attitude is the most important toward successful research
To have excellent research work, the following three points are critical
1. Have solid background on the fundamental principle of the research topic
2. Be persistent to work till success
3. Have an innovative and open mind
How
to Write Research Papers:
1. M. Ashby (
2. S.D. Senturia (MIT), How to avoid the Reviewer’s Axe: One Editor’s View, J. MEMS, 12(3), 229-232, 2003. (dx.doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2003.814319)
3. G.M. Whitesides (Havard), Whiteside’s Group: Writing a
Paper, Advanced Material, 16(15),1375-1377, 2004.
(dx.doi.org/10.1002/adma.200400767)
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