Before Benjamin Bloom came along, the conventional wisdom in the education field was that educators could only do so much to help underachieving students succeed. If the students lived in poverty ...

In 1984, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom published research on a new method of teaching, commonly called Bloom's 2 Sigma Problem. The term “2 Sigma” comes from the results of the study ...

However, Bloom’s research provided the data, and extraordinarily so, that cemented one-to-one tuition and all forms of personalization as the gold standard in learning.

Thirty years ago this month, Benjamin Bloom posed a challenge to the learning sciences community: How could we replicate the effectiveness of one-to-one or small-group tutoring in a more ...

In 1956, Benjamin Bloom led a group of educational psychologists in defining the levels of intellectual behavior important to the learning process. They created a pyramid with Bloom's Taxonomy of ...

My problem with Bloom’s Taxonomy is not the same as Doug Lemov’s problem with it. For me, the root problem with the framework is that it does not accurately represent the way that we learn things.