Assessment and Mathematics Examinations in the CDIO Project

The fact that knowledge or understanding of mathematics is much more than just an ability to calculate or solve routine problems is well spread common knowledge among most of us who teach mathematics today. Yet, it can be very hard to really define what we mean by understanding mathematics. The fact that different taxonomies have been used for several years to illustrate how different levels of understanding or achievement can be matched against items of different conceptual difficulty is illustrated in this paper. Bloom's taxonomy and the MATH taxonomy are discussed in detail. This paper is a draft of a document to be used in faculty workshops at Chalmers Technical University and Göteborg University in Sweden.