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SOLO Taxonomy cultivates the culture of lifelong learning

Our familiarity with Bloom’s Taxonomy may be greater than SOLO Taxonomy. Bloom’s Taxonomy organises learning objectives hierarchically from basic recall to creation, while SOLO Taxonomy evaluates the depth and structural complexity of student understanding. SOLO Taxonomy stands for Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes. John Biggs and Kevin Collis (1982) developed it as an educational assessment framework. Teachers use it to classify the quality and complexity of observable learner responses across five SOLO levels, such as pre-structural, unistructural, multi-structural, relational, and extended abstract. Unlike Bloom’s (1956) taxonomy, SOLO focuses on how learners respond. It helps with formative assessment, so teachers can see...

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SOLO Taxonomy cultivates the culture of lifelong learning

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