A teacher designs an English lesson where students express their feelings…
2026
A teacher designs an English lesson where students express their feelings about a poem and show appreciation for others’ opinions. This learning outcome mainly belongs to which domain of Bloom’s objectives?
Answer: D. Affective domain — Concept — Bloom and his associates classified educational objectives by the kind of learner behaviour each objective describes, not by the subject being…
- A.
Linguistic domain
- B.
Cognitive domain
- C.
Psychomotor domain
- D.
Affective domain
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Correct answer: D
Concept — Bloom and his associates classified educational objectives by the kind of learner behaviour each objective describes, not by the subject being taught. Three domains cover all such objectives: the cognitive domain (knowledge and intellectual processes), the affective domain (feelings, attitudes, interests, values and appreciation), and the psychomotor domain (physical and coordinated motor skills).
Application — The stated outcome asks learners to express their own feelings about a poem and to show appreciation for the opinions of others. Expressing an emotional response is attitudinal behaviour, and treating a classmate’s view as worth respecting is value-related behaviour; neither is an act of recalling or analysing information, and neither requires a coordinated physical skill. On Krathwohl’s five affective levels — receiving, responding, valuing, organising and characterising — expressing feelings sits at responding, and showing appreciation for others’ opinions sits at valuing. The outcome therefore belongs to the affective domain.
Cross-check — Rewriting the same poem lesson as an outcome in each domain makes the boundary explicit:
Domain | Sample outcome for this same poem lesson | Behaviour being assessed |
|---|---|---|
Cognitive | “State the rhyme scheme of the poem and analyse the poet’s use of metaphor.” | An intellectual operation performed on the content |
Affective | “Express your feelings about the poem and show appreciation for a classmate’s reading of it.” | A feeling, attitude or value held towards the content |
Psychomotor | “Recite the poem with controlled breath, pace and gesture.” | A coordinated physical skill performed by the body |
Linguistic is a subject area, and in Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences it names an aptitude profile; Bloom’s classification of educational objectives contains only the three domains in the table above.
Result — The learning outcome mainly belongs to the affective domain.