Marleen Keijzer

Teaching Higher Levels of Bloom's Taxonomy 

In the BSc courses in mathematics for engineers, students first have to acquire knowledge about mathematical concepts and techniques. While being able to reproduce information is the basis for mastering content, students do not often go beyond this first level of the Bloom's taxonomy of thinking skills. They may just memorize the recipies, or reverse engineer answers based on the collection of old exams with the goal of passing the exam. The goal of this project is first to assess the importance of higher level thinking skills (such as Understand and Apply to new situations), and then to find effective ways to teach (and test) them. 

Maybe you'd like to be interviewed about whether it is important to teach analytical thinking skills in basic mathematics courses. And maybe you want to share your methods to teach them. Please contact me and we'll make an appointment.

My personal learning goal for the SUTQ project is to learn to do (publishable) research in this less quantitative field.