During our Professional Learning day on Monday 17th August we will, as a staff, be meeting with our colleagues from St Joseph's Kingswood to continue our Visible Learning journey. Our Visible learning leader Lyn Foote will help us to further develop our students learning outcomes by introducing us to SOLO Taxonomy.
SOLO stands for Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes and provides a simple, reliable and robust model for three levels of understanding – surface, deep and transfer.
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SOLO Taxonomy |
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Level of Knowledge |
SURFACE |
DEEP TO TRANSFER |
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Solo Taxonomy level |
No Idea (Prestructural) |
One Idea (Unistructural) |
Many Ideas (Multistructural) |
Relate (Relational) | Extend (Extended) |
| Definition | The learner has no understanding of knowledge of a concept and may not know how to begin a task. | The learner identifies isolated pieces of information and is unaware of any connections. | The learner identifies several bits of information associated with a topic but has no meaningful idea of how they are interrelated. | The learner understands the relationships or connections between related concepts and ideas. | The learner is able to extend and generalise what they have learned to a different context. |
The table above shows that has students gain knowledge, make connections and transfer this knowledge they learning becomes deeper.
Sarah Byrne
Leader of Professional Practice