Taxonomy of the Cognitive Domain: An Example of Architectural Education Program

AbstractCognitive domain includes the behaviors regarding mental skills. These behaviors are at the level of knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation according to American education psychologist Benjamin Samuel Bloom et al. Architectural education aims to acquire a profession within the efforts of designing and building along with creative solutions by harmonizing the requirements with technical opportunities. It is built on the architectural project studies and contains theoretical and practical courses.In this paper; elective course named as ‘New Buildings in Historical Environments-Studio’ included in the educational program of Department of Architecture of Karabük University will be analyzed according to Bloom Taxonomy