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Hamilton's Gifted Services seek to develop through the integration of curriculum and program goals, higher level challenges utilizing Benjamin Bloom's model of knowledge structures. The structure is an ideal format to develop mental skills with a formative process. There are six major categories which are listed in order below, starting with degrees of difficulty in basic and continuing to most complex.
Knowledge
The ability to recall, remember or recognize ideas or facts. True understanding involves cognitive processes requiring more than simply memory.
Comprehension
Making use of what is received in instruction, without necessarily relating it to other things or seeing implications.
Application
The ability to use abstractions,rules,principles, ideas and methods in appropriate situations.
Analysis
The ability to break down communication into its constituent parts or elements.
Synthesis
The ability to take pieces,elements,or parts of things and recombine them into a new pattern or structure.
Evaluation/Creative
The ability to decide if criteria has been satisfied by making judgements about the value of ideas and materials.
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