Bloom's Taxonomy "refers to a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives) . . . learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels."
Wikipedia

The verbs associated with the various levels are quite useful when writing learning outcomes.

Bloom's Taxonomy (Revised) Action Verbs

Remember

Understand

Apply

Analyze

Evaluate

Create

Basic Knowledge

More Sophisticated/Higher Level Thinking

Recall or recognition of specific information with little personal assimilation

Student grasps the meaning behind the information and interprets, translates, or comprehends the information.

Student uses information to relate and apply it to a new situation with minimal instructor input.

Student 
discriminates, 
organizes, and scrutinizes 
assumptions in an attempt to identify evidence
for a conclusion.

Judging the value of ideas, materials and methods by developing and applying standards

Putting together ideas or elements to develop an original idea or engage in creative thinking

Describe
Define
Identify
Label
List
Locate
Match
Memorize
Name
Omit
Recite
Select
State
Count
Draw
Outline
Point
Quote
Read
Recall
Recognize
Repeat
Reproduce

Classify
Defend
Demonstrate
Distinguish
Explain
Express
Extend
Give Examples
Illustrate
Indicate
Interrelate
Interpret
Infer
Judge
Match
Paraphrase
Represent
Restate
Rewrite
Select
Show
Summarize
Tell
Translate
Associate
Compute
Convert
Discuss
Estimate
Extrapolate
Generalize
Predict

Apply
Choose
Dramatize
Explain
Generalize
Judge
Organize
Paint
Prepare
Produce
Select
Show
Sketch
Solve
Use
Add
Calculate
Change
Classify
Complete
Compute
Discover
Divide
Examine
Graph
Interpolate
Manipulate
Modify
Operate
Subtract
Use

Analyze
Categorize
Classify
Compare
Differentiate
Distinguish
Identify
Infer
Point out
Select
Subdivide
Survey
Arrange
Breakdown
Combine
Design
Detect
Diagram
Develop
Discriminate
Illustrate
Outline
Relate
Point out
Separate
Utilize

Appraise
Judge
Criticize
Defend
Compare
Assess
Conclude
Contrast
Critique
Determine
Grade
Justify
Measure
Rank
Rate
Support
Test

Choose
Combine
Compose
Construct
Create
Design
Develop
Do
Formulate
Hypothesize
Invent
Make
Originate
Organize
Plan
Produce
Role Play
Tell
Compile
Drive
Devise
Explain
Generate
Group
Integrate
Prescribe
Propose
Rearrange
Reconstruct
Reorganize
Revise
Rewrite