Abstract
Transparency in learning and teaching (TILT) has been a growing topic of interest in higher education. This study aimed to examine how a simple TILT manipulation could impact a well-established, popular, interdisciplinary semester- long research symposium that involves scores of undergraduates. TILTing the instructions for this symposium had a significant effect on all three TILT components (i.e., purpose, task, and criteria). Underclassmen benefited equally to upperclassmen in terms of understanding the importance and ways to be successful. Furthermore, although both majors and nonmajors benefited from the TILTed instructions, students studying a course outside their major benefited significantly more than students taking a course within their own program of study.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Woods, Joshua A.; Doran, Megan E.; and Wilcox, Jesse
(2024)
"A Little Transparency Goes a Long Way: TILT Enhances Student Perceptions of an Interdisciplinary Research Symposium,"
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Vol. 18:
No.
2, Article 9.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2024.180209