Abstract:
This study aims at analyzing the exercise on the descript ive texts
f o u n d i n “P r o gr es i f ” wo r k s h eet u s i n g r ev i s ed by Bloom’ s Taxonomy.
The type of the study is descriptive qualitative study. The object of this
study is the descriptive reading texts and the questions of the exercises presented
in the English worksheet entitled “Progresif” used in second semester of the first
grade of Junior High School.
In this research, the researcher finds that there are two types of texts on
this book. They are descriptive and procedure text. However, the writer focuses
her analysis on the questions of the descriptive texts using revised Bloom’s
Taxonomy. She concluded that the levels of questions in the worksheet based on
revised Bloom taxonomy belongs to remembering, understanding, applying,
analyzing, evaluating, and creating. It is found that 69% of the questions are
dominated on the remembering, 22% of questions are understanding, 9% of the
questions are analyzing, and there are no question categorized on the applying,
evaluating, and creating. It means that the questions of the exercises on the
descriptive text developed found in “Progresif” worksheet are categorized in
lowest level of cognitive process dimension.
