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SOLO Taxonomy helps recognise levels and complexity of understanding
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S.O.L.O
SOLO Taxonomy
Structured of
Observed
Learning
Outcomes
Developed by Biggs and Collis (1982) describing the 5 stages and complexity of understanding.
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/solo.htm
1) Pre-structural: here students are simply acquiring bits of unconnected information, which have no organisation and make no sense.
2) Unistructural: simple and obvious connections are made, but their significance is not grasped.
3) Multistructural: a number of connections may be made, but the meta-connections between them are missed, as is their significance for the whole.
4) Relational level: the student is now able to appreciate the significance of the parts in relation to the whole.
5) At the extended abstract level: the student is making connections not only within the given subject area, but also beyond it, able to generalise and transfer the principles and ideas underlying the specific instance.
