Mood:  not sure

I was kicking around ideas on a possible adaptation to the model of Bloom's Taxonomy I last posted.  It's rough, and I know it will need some work.  But I think it is the real viable alternative to this crazy model that seems so prevalent.  Of course, I'm just thinkin about thinkin...

So I tried a model with branching/supported idealogues.  That just didn't work.  There has to be some way to show that Application and Comprehension are faceted sides of the same activity.  Those have to be supported by base facts (Knowledge).  Resting on those foundations or incompassed as a higher, inner function of those two, are the fused actions of Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation.  I'm still trying to figure out whether those three, which can blend seamlessly, are part of the inner, deeper workings of Application/Comprehension, or whether they are supported (yet a higher function) by Application/Comprehension.

Seven years of teaching and designing instruction for adult education in highly technical skills has shown me that those advanced skills grow out of experience which can only be developed through Application.  Part of that comes from the actual definition of what our basic job skills are.  We were teaching what we did, but it was broken and inconsistent since not everyone passed along the same key information in the same way (standardization).  Only through formalizing our training were we able to codify what it is we do (at least at a very basic level).  Perhapse in another post I will attach that paper to show what I'm really talking about...  blam...  stinkin rabbit trail...

So anyhoo...  I'll work on this model some more.  Maybe I can even make it look purdy.