what are the advantages and disadvantages in level of questioning using application?(blooms taxonomy)?

Application questions require the learner to have achieved a higher level of understanding of the content. Lower level questions (knowledge/comprehension) only require the learner to take in and understand the information, but not necessarily use it.

For example, this question would be a knowledge level question: Which of the following is a pronoun?

a. cow

b. and

c. she

d. run

This question only requires that you can recognize a pronoun when you see it. The question “Use a pronoun correctly in a sentence” requires not only knowing what a pronoun is, but also how to use (apply) it in a sentence. Therefore, the application level questioning ensures that the learner has a working knowledge, not just a ‘book knowledge’ of the topic. The answer to an application question will not be directly in the text.

A disadvantage is that in more complex subjects, these questions can be difficult to write. You must be able to give enough information in the stem of the question to define the expectations, but not so much that it becomes either ambiguous or becomes a lower level question.

Application questions are the mainstain of applied sciences like nursing where learners must know more than what is in the book and must be able to apply that information in multiple situations.

Well, generally, a high level language is ‘easier’ to learn and read, but no computer can actually understand it. The lowest level language of all is assembler in which each instruction is given a mnemonic and arguments for memory addresses and actions to be performed. However, to give you an idea, an action such as opening a message box in the middle of the screen would require somewhere in the region of 150 assembler instructions or more, specifying the x and y position, height, depth, border style, and the message including font size and type. This list of what the computer needs to display a message box is not exhaustive. I am not sure what language Windows is originally written in, but you probably have a good idea of the size of the program. As an average assembler instruction is 4-5 bytes, you can see how many millions of lines of code you would need to write if you were to develop Windows in a low-level language. (Actually it would be impossible)