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Title

An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model

Author(s)

Salleh, Norsaremah;  Mendes, Emilia;  Grundy, John;  Burch, Giles St. J.

Abstract

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.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies. Centre for Complex Software Systems and Services

Source

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2010), Cape Town, South Africa, 01-08 May 2010, Vol. 1, pp. 577-586

Publication year

2010

Keyword(s)

Conscientiousness;  Five-factor personality model;  Higher education;  Pair programming;  Personality types

Publisher

ACM

ISBN

9781605587196, 1605587192

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1806799.1806883

Copyright

Coyright © 2010 ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in the Proceedings of ICSE 2010, 2010. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1806799.1806883

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