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Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion

Published:2019-01-04 Issue:1 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Miller Casey W.¹^ORCID,Zwickl Benjamin M.²^ORCID,Posselt Julie R.³,Silvestrini Rachel T.⁴,Hodapp Theodore⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA.

2. School of Physics and Astronomy, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA.

3. Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California, 3470 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

4. Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Rochester Institute of Technology, 85 Lomb Memorial Drive, Rochester, NY 14623, USA.

5. American Physical Society, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA.

Abstract

Graduate admissions tests cannot identify the students most likely to complete a Ph.D. in physics.

Funder

National Science Foundation

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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