Analysis of Questions According to the Revised Bloom Taxonomy (PPSE/ TFKT- Analytical Chemistry Related Questions)

Abstract

This research was conducted to analyse Analytical Chemistry related questions in Teaching Field Knowledge Tests (TFKT) the Public Personnel Selection Exam (PPSE) according to the revised Bloom taxonomy (RBT). For this purpose, a total of 510 questions were examined with the help of the document analysis technique of 2013-2018 PPSE /TFKT’s and 83 questions related to Analytical chemistry were analysed. 71 of the questions were taken from Chemistry TFKT, 12 of them were taken from science/science and Technology TFKT. Before determining the cognitive process and knowledge dimensions of the questions in the analysis process, the template developed by the researcher was prepared, the questions were analysed one by one, end then the two-dimensional RBT was placed in the appropriate box on the table. At the same time as the placement, questions were considered to be more than one cognitive process dimension and higher dimension were taken. The name and verb part of problem has been carried out in such a way that the name part is related to the knowledge dimension and the verb is the cognitive process dimensions. According to the findings, it was determined that the cognitive process dimensions of the questions were 8, 4% recall, 25,6% comprehension, 50,0% practice, 14,6% resolution, and no question of evolution and creation dimension. The knowledge dimensions were determined to be 7, 2% factual, 31,3% conceptual, 61,5% operational knowledge, respectively. There are no questions in metacognitive knowledge dimension. When the distribution of the questions according to the years is examined, the most questions at the metacognitive level are in the test in 2015, while the most questions at sub cognitive level are in the 2016. When exam questions are prepared, it is proposed to first set targets and to create taxonomies that will guide the targets and to take into consideration the RBT.

Keywords

• analitik kimya, yenilenmiş bloom taksonomisi, soru analizi