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Investigating institutional influence on graduate program admissions by modelling physics GRE cut-off scores
Nils J. Mikkelsen, Nicholas T. Young, Marcos D. Caballero
Despite limiting access to applicants from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, the practice of using hard or soft GRE cut-off scores in physics graduate program admissions i…
The Physics GRE does not help applicants "stand out"
Nicholas T. Young, Marcos D. Caballero
One argument for keeping the physics GRE is that it can help applicants who might otherwise be missed in the admissions process stand out. In this work, we evaluate whether this cl…
Predicting time to graduation at a large enrollment American university
John M. Aiken, Riccardo De Bin, Morten Hjorth-Jensen +1
The time it takes a student to graduate with a university degree is mitigated by a variety of factors such as their background, the academic performance at university, and their in…
Thematic Analysis of 18 Years of PERC Proceedings using Natural Language Processing
Tor Ole B. Odden, Alessandro Marin, Marcos D. Caballero
We have used an unsupervised machine learning method called Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to thematically analyze all papers published in the Physics Education Research Confere…