Webb's Depth of Knowledge consists of four levels that categorizes tasks according to the complexity of thinking required to meet the objective. These four levels can act as a guide for teachers to create an in-depth and rich learning environment for students to receive high-level learning:
- Level 1: Recall & Reproduction
- Tasks that does not require cognitive effort beyond copying, computing, defining, and recognizing.
- Level 2: Skills & Concept
- Tasks requiring more than one mental step such as comparing, organizing, summarizing, predicting, and estimating.
- Level 3: Strategic Thinking/Reasoning
- Tasks requiring multiple responses with justification such as solving non-routine problems, designing an experiment, or analyzing characteristics of a genre.
- Level 4: Extended Thinking
- Tasks that require the most cognitive effort such as synthesize information from multiple sources, transfer knowledge from one domain to solve problems in another, designing a survey and interpreting results, analyze multiple texts to extract themes, or writing an original short story.
Similarly, Bloom's Revised Taxonomy consists of six levels of skills and abilities in increasing demand that guides in clarifying objectives of student learning. These levels help teacher plan and deliver instruction appropriately, implement valid assessment tasks and strategies, and ensure that instruction and assessment are aligned with the objectives:
- Remember: recognizing, recalling
- Understand: interpreting, exemplifying, classifying, summarizing, inferring, comparing, explaining
- Apply: executing, implementing
- Analyze: differentiating, organizing, attributing
- Evaluate: checking, critiquing
- Create: generating, planning, producing
Application of Webb's DOK to Teaching Practices
Teaching to Webb's Depth of Knowledge to engage students in richer discussions, learning experiences, and rigorous tasks can positively impact their learning in all content areas.
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