@article{Rouse_Phillips_Mehaffey_McGowan_Felten_2017, title={Decoding and Disclosure in Students-as-Partners Research: A Case Study of the Political Science Literature Review}, volume={1}, url={https://mulpress.mcmaster.ca/ijsap/article/view/3061}, DOI={10.15173/ijsap.v1i1.3061}, abstractNote={The Decoding the Disciplines (DtD) methodology has been used to study bottlenecks to student learning in a range of disciplines. The DtD interview process involves conversations between faculty regarding disciplinary practices. This article analyzes the use of the DtD approach in a student-faculty partnership to explore questions about disciplinary learning in political science. The research team compared how faculty and two cohorts of undergraduates decode a specific disciplinary bottleneck—the task of writing a literature review in political science. Results from the interviews reveal fundamental differences in how faculty and undergraduates conduct literature reviews in this discipline, including a troubling disjuncture as undergraduates become more expert in this process. Because the research team included both students and faculty, we also explore issues of disclosure and power in student-faculty partnerships in SoTL research.}, number={1}, journal={International Journal for Students as Partners}, author={Rouse, Mary and Phillips, Julie and Mehaffey, Rachel and McGowan, Susannah and Felten, Peter}, year={2017}, month={May}, pages={53–66} }