An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model
This paper describes a formal experiment carried out to investigate the effect of the Personality factor conscientiousness on the effectiveness of Pair Programming as a pedagogical tool in higher Education. This experiment took place at the University of Auckland, using as subjects undergraduate st...
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| author | Salleh, Norsaremah Mendes, Emilia Grundy, John Burch, Giles St. J. |
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| description | This paper describes a formal experiment carried out to
investigate the effect of the Personality factor conscientiousness on the effectiveness of Pair Programming as a pedagogical tool in higher Education. This experiment took place at the University of Auckland, using as subjects undergraduate students attending an introductory programming course. Conscientiousness was chosen because it has been shown to be the most consistent predictor of
academic achievement. Our findings showed that differences in conscientiousness level did not significantly affect the academic performance of students who pair programmed, which could have been due to the short duration of the tasks used throughout the experiment. However, results revealed that another Personality factor - Openness to experience - presented a significant correlation with paired students’ academic performance. |
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| spelling | iium-13432011-12-06T07:34:20Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/1343/ An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model Salleh, Norsaremah Mendes, Emilia Grundy, John Burch, Giles St. J. QA76 Computer software This paper describes a formal experiment carried out to investigate the effect of the Personality factor conscientiousness on the effectiveness of Pair Programming as a pedagogical tool in higher Education. This experiment took place at the University of Auckland, using as subjects undergraduate students attending an introductory programming course. Conscientiousness was chosen because it has been shown to be the most consistent predictor of academic achievement. Our findings showed that differences in conscientiousness level did not significantly affect the academic performance of students who pair programmed, which could have been due to the short duration of the tasks used throughout the experiment. However, results revealed that another Personality factor - Openness to experience - presented a significant correlation with paired students’ academic performance. ACM Press 2010-05 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/1343/1/SallehMendesGrundyGiles__ICSE10.pdf Salleh, Norsaremah and Mendes, Emilia and Grundy, John and Burch, Giles St. J. (2010) An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model. In: 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2010, 1 - 8 May 2010, Cape Town. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806883 |
| spellingShingle | QA76 Computer software Salleh, Norsaremah Mendes, Emilia Grundy, John Burch, Giles St. J. An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| title | An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| title_full | An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| title_fullStr | An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| title_full_unstemmed | An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| title_short | An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| title_sort | empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model |
| topic | QA76 Computer software |
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