LSAMP Interdisciplinary and Societally Relevant STEM Bridges to the Doctorate - Cohort VII: BD Site: Arizona State University

由亚利桑那州立大学领导的西部少数民族参与联盟(WAESO)路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(LSAMP)将利用LSAMP学者和导师的成熟网络，与教育考试服务(ETS)和研究生记录考试(GRE)合作，并扩大创新的生命和社会科学应用数学(AMLSS)博士项目，以培养12名将比大多数研究生更成功地获得博士学位的博士桥学者。实现这一目标的联盟战略基于对之前6个BD队列的学生成功数据的仔细分析，ETS和GRE对个人潜力指数(PPI)的应用研究，以及大量关于学生在校博士研究项目的持久性和完成性的文献研究。重要的是，拟议的LSAMP跨学科和与社会相关的STEM桥梁通往博士学位-队列VII？该项目旨在将学术成就和关键的非认知个人属性有效结合在一起的博士生，这些博士生反过来将在应用数学、科学和工程原理帮助解决全球问题的方式上产生变革性的影响。拟议项目的智力价值是对成功的非认知指标在留住和提升毕业生方面的价值的实际评估和论证，研究结果和常识强烈表明，这些指标非常重要。更具体地说，该项目将展示和评估在进入研究生项目前后诊断关键学生非认知个人属性，然后通过专家指导和项目活动故意加强这些关键非认知个人属性如何影响代表性不足的学生博士项目过渡。根据对研究生项目成功的非认知预测因素的研究和通过与GRE合作收集的关于1000名学生的试点数据，以下六个广泛的属性被确定为研究生成功、留住和完成博士学位的最佳预测因素。这些广泛的类别包括熟练技能，例如(1)知识和创造力；(2)沟通技能；(3)团队合作；以及(4)韧性；(5)规划和组织；(6)道德和诚信。对教师GRE用户(Walpol.M.B.，Burton，N.W.，Kanyi，K.&Amp；Jackenthal，A.，2001)结合对教育研究文献(ETS，2008)的全面回顾，指出韧性(多样性，2009)，它既包括坚持不懈/坚韧(极其努力地工作/能够克服挑战和挫折)，也包括情绪反应(接受反馈而不采取防御措施，在压力下工作良好)，是极其重要的，经常被忽视和低估，作为衡量成功毕业生成绩的指标，特别是当与其他五个指标一起评估时。没有研究或尝试的是积极发展和加强韧性、坚韧/坚韧和情绪反应这两个方面，同时，在努力发展和加强其他五个关键属性的同时，也要在让学生进入博士课程之前。亚利桑那州立大学的博士之桥项目为LSAMP学生从本科生到博士项目的过渡提供了一种有用的方式，开发一种模式可能产生更广泛的影响，该模式可以通过提高全国STEM领域的博士学位成就来传播，使所有学生受益。

The Western Alliance to Expand Student Opportunities (WAESO) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP), under the leadership of Arizona State University, will leverage a well established network of LSAMP scholars and mentors, partner with the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), and expand an innovative Applied Mathematics in Life and Social Sciences(AMLSS) doctoral program to produce a cohort of 12 Bridge to the Doctorate(BD) Scholars that will be more successful at achieving doctoral degrees than majority graduate students. The alliance strategy to achieve this is based on a careful analysis of student success data from its previous 6 BD cohorts, applied research on the Personal Potential Index (PPI) by ETS and the GRE, and a substantial body of research in the literature about persistence and completion of students inSTEM doctoral research programs. Importantly, the proposed ?LSAMP Interdisciplinary and Societally Relevant STEM Bridges to the Doctorate - Cohort VII? project is designed to graduate doctoral students with a powerful combination of scholarly achievement and key noncognitive personal attributes who in turn will have a transformational impact in the way that math, science, and engineering principles are applied to help solve global problems.The intellectual merit of the proposed project is the practical evaluation and demonstration of the value of non-cognitive indicators of success in graduate retention and advancement that research findings and common sense strongly suggest are very important. More specifically, the program will demonstrate and evaluate how diagnosing key student non-cognitive personal attributesbefore and after entering a graduate program followed by deliberate strengthening of these key non-cognitive personal attributes via expert mentoring and program activities affect underrepresented student doctoral program transition. Based on research in non-cognitive predictors of graduate program success and pilot data collected through a partnership with theGRE on Project 1000 students, the following six broad attributes have been identified as the best predictors of graduate student success, retention, and completion through the Ph.D. degree.These broad categories include both proficiency skills, such as (1) Knowledge and Creativity; (2)Communication Skills; (3) Teamwork; as well as interpersonal factors, such as (4) Resilience; (5)Planning and Organization; and (6) Ethics and Integrity. Extensive in-depth interviews with faculty GRE users (Walpole, M. B., Burton, N. W., Kanyi, K.,& Jackenthal, A., 2001) when combined with a thorough review of the educational research literature (ETS, 2008) point to Resilience (Diverse, 2009), which encompasses bothpersistence/tenacity (works extremely hard/can overcome challenges and setbacks) as well as a measure of emotional responsiveness (accepts feedback without getting defensive and works well under stress), as being extremely important and too often overlooked and undervalued as an indicator of successful graduate outcome, particularly when evaluated in conjunction with the other five.What has not been investigated or attempted is the proactive development and strengthening of both aspects of resilience, persistence/tenacity and emotional responsiveness, simultaneously with efforts to develop and strengthen the other five key attributes as well, prior to having studentsenter a doctoral program. The Bridge to the Doctorate program at Arizona State University provides a useful way to transition LSAMP students from the undergraduate to doctoral programs, with the potential broader impact of developing a model that could be disseminated to benefit all students by improving doctoral degree attainment in STEM fields nationally.