cognitive-rigor

name	cognitive-rigor
description	Classify an objective or assessment item by Bloom's Taxonomy level and Webb's Depth of Knowledge (DOK). Use this atom when lesson-planner, assessment-designer, or question-set needs to verify cognitive rigor before finalizing. Do NOT use for generating objectives — that is atom-objective-write.

cognitive-rigor

Tags an objective or item with Bloom level (Remember through Create) and Webb DOK (1-4). Used as a quality check to ensure assessments and activities hit the intended rigor level.

Input

{
  "text": "Students will analyze how the author develops the theme across multiple chapters.",
  "type": "objective",
  "intended_bloom": "Analyze",
  "intended_dok": 3
}

Output

{
  "tool": "cognitive-rigor",
  "bloom_level": "Analyze",
  "bloom_rank": 4,
  "dok_level": 3,
  "dok_label": "Strategic Thinking",
  "matches_intended": true,
  "rationale": "Verb 'analyze' + cross-chapter scope = Bloom Analyze (4) + DOK 3 (requires reasoning across text sections).",
  "human_review_required": true
}

Do NOT use this atom for

• Generating objectives (use atom-objective-write)
• Scoring student work
• Replacing teacher professional judgment on rigor alignment

Pipeline note

Follows references/method.md at the Analysis step (rigor classification). Output conforms to protocol-layer/metadata-schema.md. human_review_required: true — Bloom/DOK classification is model-inferred; teacher should verify alignment.