شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The assessment is considered a real and direct sign to identify the extent of achieving the goals of educational process. As examination is one of means to assess the student and an integrated part of the teaching process. Therefore the researchers conducted this study to assess the national examination questions of the history module in secondary school according to bloom’s taxonomy of knowledge levels. The scope of this paper deals with following points: 1) the national examination questions of the modern history and contemporary history of Arab world in sixth stage for the last ten years. 2) The six bloom’s levels of knowledge (remembering, comprehension, application, analyzing, structuring and assessment). The sample of this paper consists of the national examination questions in all Iraq’s provinces with exception of Kurdistan region. The sample of this paper is the national questions from 2001-2002 until 2010 -2010 of the first attempt and the total number of questions was (106) question. The researcher used the statistic means: 1) repetition. 2) Percentages. The researcher found the following outcomes: 1) the extent of including the national questions of the following modules (modern history, contemporary history of the Arab world for the sixth stage on knowledge levels of bloom’s taxonomy in every year of paper’s sample. 2) the extent of including the national questions for the history module on each level of bloom’s taxonomy (remembering, comprehension, application, analyzing, structuring and assessment of the last ten years. In the light of paper’s results, the researcher recommends on the following: it is important to develop the national questions to an extent that insure the measurement in all the knowledge levels (remembering, comprehension, application, analyzing, structuring, and assessment. The researcher suggests the following points: 1) conducting an identical study to this study, but for other stages. 2) Assessing the final courses and monthly questions which are prepared by teachers. (Published abstract)