ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (MGT700)

Group Assignment

Personality and Individual Differences:
The Big Five personality traits, learning styles, and academic achievement

PREPARED BY:
AILEEN ANNE ANAK JINGGONG (2014307239)
ROZITA BT NAWI (2015494512)

1. TITLE OF THE ARTICLE

The Big Five personality traits, learning styles and academic achievement

2. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY * College students differ in how the process, encode, recall, organize and apply the information they learn. * The article wish to understand whether the differences are related to personality and does learning strategies are mediate the link between personality traits and academic achievements.

3. LITERATURE REVIEW:

For the literature review articles, researchers found the evidence on the relationship between personality, learning styles and academic achievement that could be a variable for this research.

Researchers has referred to the Big Five framework of personality traits by Costa & McCrae (1992) that has emerged as model for understanding the relationship between personality and academic behaviors ((Poropat, 2009). The researchers want to test the relationship between conscientiousness, neuroticism, extraversion, openness and agreeable to the personality traits.

Researchers also adopted Schmeck, Ribich and Ramaniah’s (1977) model because it identifies learning strategies that are likely to enhance learning and academic achievement from the framework of effective information processing. Prior researches also suggest that individuals differ in their intellectual styles and preferences for how they gain knowledge (Sternberg & Zhang, 2001; Zhang 2003). Researchers found that from the previous findings, the learning styles and personality traits appear to be intricately connected although how they jointly influence academic is unclear.

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