TILT: Designing Transparent Assessments

SUMMARY 

A 20-minute faculty development session — slide deck, participant workbook, and facilitator script — that teaches instructors to make assignment expectations explicit.

OVERVIEW 

TILT (Transparency in Learning and Teaching) is a framework, developed by Mary-Ann Winkelmes, that asks three questions of any assignment: What is its purpose? What exactly should students do? What does success look like? I designed a complete training package to teach this framework to college faculty in a single 20-minute session, with take-home materials for applying it to their own courses.

The session is built on an explicit-instruction model — I do, we do, you do — so faculty watch the framework modeled, practice it together, and apply it independently, all within twenty minutes. Every piece of the package cross-references the others, so the deck, the workbook, and the facilitator script stay in sync.

AT A GLANCE 

Role: Instructional designer & facilitator 

Audience: College faculty across disciplines

Format: 20-minute live session + take-home worksheet 

Deliverables: 17-slide deck, 17-page participant workbook, facilitator delivery script. 

Frameworks: TILT (Winkelmes); explicit instruction (Archer); Universal Design for Learning