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

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.

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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.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Full Paper)
Additional Information:	3705/1343
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Pair programming, formal experiment, personality type, fivefactor model, conscientiousness, empirical investigation, higher education
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Computer Science
Depositing User:	Dr Norsaremah Salleh
Date Deposited:	09 Sep 2011 10:53
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2011 15:34
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/1343

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