Bloom’s Taxonomy. How To Gauge Your Learning Progress | by Sergey Piterman | Outco | Medium
As I mentioned in the previous post, how confident you feel in a subject isn’t necessarily a reliable metric, for various reasons. We want to move away from assessing ourselves using only our gut feelings.
It’s a hierarchy that consists of different levels of mastery over a subject. To move up, or operate within a certain level, you need to be able to perform certain tasks or solve certain kinds of problems. As you move up to higher levels, those tasks become more complex, not just because they build on mastery over the previous levels, but because they involve “phase-shifts”.
These phase-shifts are the “aha!” moments we all experience when learning a new subject. Where stuff just clicks and all the pieces seem to come together. Where there’s a distinct “before” and “after.” A one-directional paradigm-shift, where you take a step back and can no longer see the world the same way.
One nice thing about this process is that as you move up to higher vantage points, you’ll be able to reflect back and see the limitations of past perspectives.
