Action verbs to LO

How to Write Student Learning Outcomes

Action Verb List – Suggested Verbs to Use in Each Level of Thinking Skills of Bloom taxonomy
Below are a collection terms (verbs) that can be used when creating student learning outcomes for a course or degree program.

Remember

Count
Define
Describe
Draw
Identify
Labels
List
Match
Name
Outline
Point
Quote
Read
Recall
Recite
Recognize
Record
Repeat
Reproduce
Select
State
Tell
Write


Understand

Associate
Clarify
Classify
Compare
Compute
Conclude
Convert
Defend
Determine
Discuss
Distinguish
Estimate
Exemplify
Explain
Extend
Extrapolate
Generalize
Give examples
Infer
Instantiate
Illustrate
Interpret
Order
Organize Paraphrase
Predict
Represent
Rewrite
Summarize
Translate

Apply

Add
Apply
Calculate
Carry out
Categorize Change
Classify
Complete
Combine
Compile Compute
Demonstrate
Divide
Examine
Execute
Explain
Graph
Group Implement
Integrate Interpolate
Manipulate
Modify
Operate
Prepare
Prove
Rearrange
Reconstruct
Relate
Reorganize Show
Solve
Subtract
Translate
Use



Analyze

Analyze
Arrange
Attribute
Breakdown
Combine
Compare
Contrast
Design
Detect
Develop
Deconstruct
Diagram
Differentiate
Discriminate
Distinguish
Focus
Find coherence
Illustrate
Infer
Integrate
Map
Organize
Outline
Prescribe
Propose
Point out
Relate
Select
Separate
Specify
Structure
Subdivide
Transform Utilize



Evaluate

Appraise
Assess
Check
Compare
Conclude
Contrast
Correct
Critique
Debate
Detect
Determine
Evaluate
Grade
Interpret
Judge
Justify
Measure
Monitor
Order
Rank
Rate
Revise
Rewrite
Score
Support
Test


Create

Compose
Construct
Create
Design
Derive
Develop
Devise
Discover
Generate
Expand
Explore
Hypothesize
Initiate
Innovate
Invent
Plan
Produce
Propose
Transform


• Adapted based on:
Anderson. L.W. (Ed.), Krathwohl, D. R. (Ed.), Airsian, P.W., Cruikshank, K.A., Mayer, R.E., Pintrich, P.R., Raths, T., & Wittrock, M.C. (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. Boston: Allyn & Bacon