Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments

Evidence from our systematic literature review revealed numerous inconsistencies in findings from the Pair Programming (PP) literature regarding the effects of personality on PP’s effectiveness as a pedagogical tool. In particular: i) the effect of differing personality traits of pairs on the succes...

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Main Authors:	Salleh, Norsaremah, Mendes, Emilia, Grundy, John
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Published:	Springer 2012
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spelling	iium-286742017-09-20T08:45:57Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/28674/ Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments Salleh, Norsaremah Mendes, Emilia Grundy, John Q Science (General) Evidence from our systematic literature review revealed numerous inconsistencies in findings from the Pair Programming (PP) literature regarding the effects of personality on PP’s effectiveness as a pedagogical tool. In particular: i) the effect of differing personality traits of pairs on the successful implementation of pair-programming (PP) within a higher education setting is still unclear, and ii) the personality instrument most often used had been Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), despite being an indicator criticized by personality psychologists as unreliable in measuring an individual’s personality traits. These issues motivated the research described in this paper. We conducted a series of five formal experiments (one of which was a replicated experiment), between 2009 and 2010, at the University of Auckland, to investigate the effects of personality composition on PP’s effectiveness. Each experiment looked at a particular personality trait of the Five-Factor personality framework. This framework comprises five broad traits (Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), and our experiments focused on three of these - Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. A total of 594 undergraduate students participated as subjects. Overall, our findings for all five experiments, including the replication, showed that Conscientiousness and Neuroticism did not present a statistically significant effect upon paired students’ academic performance. However, Openness played a significant role in differentiating paired students’ academic performance. Participants’ survey results also indicated that PP not only caused an increase in satisfaction and confidence levels but also brought enjoyment to the tutorial classes and enhanced students’ motivation. Springer 2012-12-08 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/28674/4/investigating_the_effects_of_personality.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/28674/7/28674_Investigating%20the%20effects%20of%20personality.SCOPUSpdf.pdf Salleh, Norsaremah and Mendes, Emilia and Grundy, John (2012) Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments. Empirical Software Engineering, 19 (3). pp. 714-752. ISSN 1382-3256 http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10664-012-9238-4 10.1007/s10664-012-9238-4
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description	Evidence from our systematic literature review revealed numerous inconsistencies in findings from the Pair Programming (PP) literature regarding the effects of personality on PP’s effectiveness as a pedagogical tool. In particular: i) the effect of differing personality traits of pairs on the successful implementation of pair-programming (PP) within a higher education setting is still unclear, and ii) the personality instrument most often used had been Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), despite being an indicator criticized by personality psychologists as unreliable in measuring an individual’s personality traits. These issues motivated the research described in this paper. We conducted a series of five formal experiments (one of which was a replicated experiment), between 2009 and 2010, at the University of Auckland, to investigate the effects of personality composition on PP’s effectiveness. Each experiment looked at a particular personality trait of the Five-Factor personality framework. This framework comprises five broad traits (Openness to experience, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism), and our experiments focused on three of these - Conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness. A total of 594 undergraduate students participated as subjects. Overall, our findings for all five experiments, including the replication, showed that Conscientiousness and Neuroticism did not present a statistically significant effect upon paired students’ academic performance. However, Openness played a significant role in differentiating paired students’ academic performance. Participants’ survey results also indicated that PP not only caused an increase in satisfaction and confidence levels but also brought enjoyment to the tutorial classes and enhanced students’ motivation.
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title	Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments
title_short	Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments
title_full	Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments
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Investigating the effects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments

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