An affective domain describes various learning objectives among students that highlight a feeling, an emotion, an attitude, and a degree of acceptance or rejection. An affective domain is one of the three categories of Bloom’s Taxonomy.
An affective domain talks about ways in which students respond to internal and external phenomena emotionally. It includes information about their values, things that spark enthusiasm as well as aspects that motivate them.
The said domain can be classified into five different categories: receiving, responding, valuing, organization, and categorization. These five categories can be called sub-domains. These subdomains of the affective domain lead to a hierarchical structure. They can be arranged, ranging from simple feels or motivations to more complex emotions or attitudes.
This domain may also refer to a way of tracking changes in the emotional aspects of a student’s life throughout their learning progression. Learning objectives that are labeled using the said domain must have a clear intention set in place to enable growth in the learning objective.
Within education, institutions want students to respond in better ways to everything they learn. They want students to value it and maybe even characterize themselves with their subject major or as the subject expert. This particular domain plays a vital role in building this relationship between students and their career paths.
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