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Title

The effects of neuroticism on pair programming: an empirical study in the higher education context

Author(s)

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

Abstract

This paper reports on an empirical study that investigates the effects of the personality trait of neuroticism on the academic performance of students who practiced pair programming during one academic semester. The experiment was conducted at The University of Auckland involving 270 first year undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory programming course. In this study, we hypothesized that neuroticism or lack of 'emotional stability' potentially affects pair students' academic performance. However, from the analysis of our results we found lack of evidence to support this. A correlation analysis showed significant positive associations between the conscientiousness personality trait and almost all performance criteria, thus corroborating evidence reported in the educational psychology literature.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2010), Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, 16-17 September 2010, article no. 1852816

Publication year

2010

FOR Code(s)

0803 Computer Software

Keyword(s)

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

Publisher

ACM

ISBN

9781450300391, 1450300391

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1852786.1852816

Copyright

Copyright © ACM, 2010. 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 Proceedings of ESEM (2010) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1852786.1852816

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