Paper 2: Personality and learning/studying behaviors
Question: Is there a relationship between personality dimensions and student studying and learning behaviors?
Method: Big 5 personality inventory, studying survey (self-report, developed in class).
Hypotheses: Students write their own hypotheses, within the confines of the relationship between a personality dimension and studying and learning behavior, as we will define it.
Analysis: Correlations
Readings:
McCrae & Costa (1997) Personality Traits as Human Universals
Below are two additional readings, you should use at least 1 for your paper (you’re welcome to use both). Both examine personality and learning styles and use correlations for the analysis, which is what we’ll be doing as well.
Bidjerano & Dai (2007) Big Five learning strategies
Komarraju et al. (2011) Big Five learning styles
Lecture on personality on Prezi
For our experiment:
Input data here (googledoc) – and please use your initials for additional participants!
Personality and Studying SPSS data
How-to correlations with personality data
Paper 2 guidelines:
