SOLO Taxonomy

The five levels with their respective capacities (cognitive characteristics)

Levels

Capacities

Prestructural

Minimum ability to find suggestions, giving confusing answers.

Unistructural

Poor ability to find relevant suggestions or data.

Multistructural

Medium ability to discover suggestions and recognize relevant data.

Relational

High ability to find suggestions, expose relevant information and interrelationships.

Abstract (Extended)

Maximum capacity to find suggestions, to disclose relevant information, to establish interrelations and to elaborate hypotheses.