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Benjamin Bloom

1913–99

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Books authored or co-authored by Bloom

  • 1948.Teaching by discussion. Chicago, IL, College of the University of Chicago. (With J. Axelrod et al.)

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  • 1965a.Methods in personality assessment. Glencoe, IL, Free Press. (With G.G. Stern and M.I. Stein.)

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  • 1956b.Taxonomy of educational objectives: Handbook I, The cognitive domain. New York, David McKay & Co. (With D. Krathwohl et al.)

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  • 1958a.Evaluation in secondary schools. New Delhi, All India Council for Secondary Education.

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  • 1958b.Problem-solving processes of college students. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press. (With L. Broder.)

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  • 1961a.Evaluation in higher education. New Delhi. University Grants Commission.

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  • 1961b.Use of academic prediction scales for counseling and selecting college entrants. Glencoe, IL, Free Press. (With F. Peters).

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  • 1964b.Taxonomy of educational objectives: Volume II, The affective domain. New York, David McKay & Co. (With B. Masia and D. Krathwohl.)

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  • 1965.Compensatory education for cultural deprivation. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston. (With A. Davis and R. Hess.)

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  • 1966.International study of achievement in mathematics: a comparison of twelve countries. Vols I & II. New York, John Wiley & Sons. (T. Husén, Editor; B. Bloom, Associate Editor.)

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  • 1971.Handbook on formative and summative evaluation of student learning. New York, McGraw-Hill. (With J.T. Hasting, G.F. Madaus and others.)

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  • 1976.Human characteristics and school learning. New York, McGraw-Hill.

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  • 1980.The state of research on selected alterable variables in education. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, MESA Publication. (With MESA Student Group.)

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  • 1980.All our children learning: a primer for parents, teachers, and other educators. New York, McGraw-Hill.

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  • 1981.Evaluation to improve learning. New York, McGraw-Hill. (With G.F. Madaus and J.T. Hastings.)

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  • 1985.Developing talent in young people. New York, Ballantine. (With L.A. Sosniak et al.)

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  • 1993.The home environment and social learning. San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass. (T. Kellaghan, K. Sloane, B. Alvarez and B. Bloom.)

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Original language: English

Elliot W. Eisner (United States of America) Lee Jacks Professor of Education and Professor of Art at Stanford University. He has lectured throughout the world on the development of aesthetic intelligence. His major publications includeThe enlightened eye: qualitative inquiry and the enhancement of educational practice (1991),Cognition and curriculum reconsidered, 2nd ed. (1994),The educational imagination: on the design and evaluation of school programs, 3rd ed. (1994) andThe kind of schools we need (1998). He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Institute of Design of the Illinois Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. He has served as president of the National Art Education Association in the United States, the International Society for Education Through Art, the American Educational States, the Association and the John Dewey Society.

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Eisner, E.W. Benjamin Bloom. Prospects 30, 387–395 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02754061

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