Essential Learning Theories & Frameworks in IDT: Bloom's Taxonomy

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Holovatenko, T., & DeHart, J. D. (2023). Developing digital collaboration skills of elementary school pre-service teachers of English using Bloom’s Taxonomy. In Innovations in Digital Instruction Through Virtual Environments (pp. 60–83). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7015-2.ch004

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Karanja, E., & Malone, L. C. (2021). Improving project management curriculum by aligning course learning outcomes with Bloom’s taxonomy framework. Journal of International Education in Business, 14(2), 197–218. https://doi.org/10.1108/JIEB-05-2020-0038

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Ramirez, T. V. (2017). On pedagogy of personality assessment: Application of Bloom’s Taxonomy of educational objectives. Journal of Personality Assessment, 99(2), 146–152. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2016.1167059

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