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Rubric-Based Holistic Review: A Promising Route to Equitable Graduate Admissions in Physics

Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022-11, Vol.18 (2), p.020140, Article 020140 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Rubric-Based Holistic Review: A Promising Route to Equitable Graduate Admissions in Physics
Author: Young, Nicholas T ; Tollefson, K ; Zegers, Remco G. T ; Caballero, Marcos D
Subjects: College Admission ; College admissions ; College Entrance Examinations ; Colleges & universities ; Comparative Analysis ; Departments ; Disproportionate Representation ; Equal Education ; Females ; Gender Differences ; Graduate studies ; Graduate Study ; Holistic Approach ; Institutional Characteristics ; Longitudinal Studies ; Minority Group Students ; Physics ; Science Education ; Scores ; Scoring Rubrics ; Selective Admission ; Sex ; State Universities ; Student Diversity ; Student Research ; Undergraduate Study ; Volunteers
Is Part Of: Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2022-11, Vol.18 (2), p.020140, Article 020140
Description: As systematic inequities in higher education and society have been brought to the forefront, graduate programs are interested in increasing the diversity of their applicants and enrollees. Yet, structures in place to evaluate applicants may not support such aims. One potential solution to support those aims is rubricbased holistic review. Starting in 2018, our physics department implemented a rubric-based holistic review process for all applicants to our graduate program. The rubric assessed applicants on 18 metrics covering their grades, test scores, research experiences, noncognitive competencies, and fit with the program. We then compared faculty's ratings of applicants by admission status, sex, and undergraduate program over a three-year period. We find that the rubric scores show statistically significant differences between admitted and nonadmitted students as hoped. We also find that differences in rubric scores based on sex or undergraduate program reflected known systematic inequities such as applicants from smaller and less prestigious undergraduate universities scoring lower on the physics GRE and women performing more volunteer work in academia. Our results then suggest rubric-based holistic review as a possible route to making graduate admissions in physics more equitable.
Publisher: College Park: American Physical Society
Language: English;Norwegian
Identifier: ISSN: 2469-9896
EISSN: 2469-9896
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.18.020140
Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
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Rubric-Based Holistic Review: A Promising Route to Equitable Graduate Admissions in Physics

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