Using Bloom's Taxonomy to Teach Critical Thinking Skills to Business Students

ABSTRACT

Using Bloom's Taxonomy, this article provides a practical approach for enhancing critical thinking by business students. The article first describes Bloom's Taxonomy and how the model may be used as a framework for engaging business students in higher-order thought. It then explains how secondary research methods can be used to move business students to the higher planes of thought identified in Bloom's Taxonomy. Lastly, Herrick's criteria are used as a framework to analyze and evaluate the quality of secondary sources.

KEYWORDS:

• Bloom's Taxonomy
• critical thinking
• secondary research
• information literacy
• library research
• Herrick

The authors contributed equally to the writing and preparation of this article.