Look for basic concepts of knowledge in the earliest years of kindergarten and elementary school. Identify if children can memorize basic facts and vocabulary words. Ask children to label, name, match, or recall information.
Identify comprehension abilities as children grow during elementary school years. Inquire if kids are capable of putting an answer into their own words and making comparisons between dissimilar objects. See if children can generalize, explain and paraphrase information.
Monitor application and analysis skills at the middle and high school levels. Assign work or tasks that make children apply various forms of knowledge to prefabricated creative and intellectual activities. Assess if kids can distinguish between facts and opinions and point out mistakes in logic. Look for kids to develop, modify, deduce, subdivide and infer data.
Observe children for the ability to synthesize and evaluate information on a consistent basis during the high school years. See if children can use data and knowledge to create new and original works. Ask children to formulate, compose and design work. Additionally, look for the ability to measure the validity of intellectual methods and appraise, criticize, defend or justify products and people.
Identify basic levels of receiving and responding in the earliest stages of education. Observe and see if children are capable of passively attending to a task, applying listening and sharing skills. Additionally, ask children to participate in an activity. Identify children who volunteer without being prompted, discuss the task before engaging in it, follow directions and practice.
Identify affective characteristics during middle and high school years that are consistent with valuing and organizing thoughts and feelings. Identify children who are able to take ownership over feelings or beliefs and defend their validity. See if children can organize, express and debate their feelings. Identify children who can discuss the importance of certain values and make decisions --- compare, select and balance --- based on these values.
Identify aspects of characterization. Observe if high school aged children express actions and emotions in line with their personal value system. Identify children who can internalize events and manage emotions effectively. Alternatively, see if children are able to display their value system during trials by resisting, resolving and revising feelings and actions.