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

在亚利桑那州立大学的领导下，路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）将利用LSAMP学者和导师建立的良好网络，与教育考试服务中心（ETS）和研究生入学考试（GRE）合作，扩大创新的生命与社会科学应用数学（AMLSS）博士课程，培养12名“通往博士学位的桥梁”（BD）学者，这些学者将比大多数研究生更成功地获得博士学位。实现这一目标的联盟战略是基于对其前6个BD队列的学生成功数据的仔细分析，对ETS和GRE的个人潜力指数（PPI）的应用研究，以及对学生系统博士研究项目的坚持和完成的大量文献研究。重要的是，提议的？LSAMP跨学科和社会相关的STEM通往博士学位的桥梁-第七队列？该项目旨在培养具有强大学术成就和关键非认知个人属性的博士生，这些博士生将在数学、科学和工程原理的应用方式上产生变革性影响，以帮助解决全球问题。所提议的项目的智力价值是对研究结果和常识强烈表明非常重要的毕业生保留和晋升成功的非认知指标的价值进行实际评估和论证。更具体地说，该项目将展示和评估如何在进入研究生课程之前和之后诊断关键的学生非认知个人属性，然后通过专家指导和项目活动有意加强这些关键的非认知个人属性，从而影响未被充分代表的学生博士课程的过渡。根据对研究生项目成功的非认知预测因素的研究，以及通过与gre项目1000名学生合作收集的试点数据，以下六个广泛的属性被确定为研究生成功、保留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)沟通技巧;(3)团队合作;以及人际因素，如(4)心理弹性；(5)策划组织；(6)道德与诚信。对GRE教师的广泛深入采访（Walpole， M. B., Burton, n.w., Kanyi， K.,& Jackenthal， A., 2001），结合对教育研究文献的全面回顾（ETS, 2008），指出了弹性（diversity, 2009），它包括坚持/坚韧（非常努力工作/能够克服挑战和挫折）以及情绪反应的衡量（接受反馈而不采取防御措施，在压力下工作得很好）。作为一个成功的毕业生成果的指标，它是极其重要的，但往往被忽视和低估，尤其是在与其他五个指标一起评估时。没有被调查或尝试的是，在让学生进入博士课程之前，积极发展和加强韧性、坚持/坚韧和情感反应这两个方面，同时努力发展和加强其他五个关键属性。亚利桑那州立大学的博士之桥项目为LSAMP学生从本科过渡到博士课程提供了一种有用的方式，具有开发一种模式的潜在更广泛的影响，该模式可以通过提高全国STEM领域的博士学位获得程度来传播，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.