9/20/2017 Scopus - Document details https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84899922965&origin=resultslist&sort=plf-f&src=s&st1=Investigating+the+effects+of+personalit… 1/12 Scopus Document details 1 of 1 Investigating the eﬀects of personality traits on pair programming in a higher education setting through a family of experiments (Article) , , Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University Malaysia, P.O. Box 10, 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia School of Computing, Blekinge Istitute of Technology, 37179 Karlskrona, Sweden Faculty of Information and Communication Technology, Swinburne University of Technology, P.O. Box 218, Hawthorn, VIC, Australia Abstract 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. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. Author keywords Five-factor model Formal experiment Higher education Pair programming Personality traits Indexed keywords Engineering controlled terms: Experiments Teaching ◅ Back to results  Export  Download  Print  E-mail Save to PDF ⋆ Add to List ▻ More... View at Publisher Empirical Software Engineering Volume 19, Issue 3, June 2014, Pages 714-752 Salleh, N. a  Mendes, E. b  Grundy, J. c   a b c  View references (114) PlumX Metrics Usage, Captures, Mentions, Social Media and Citations beyond Scopus. Metrics 13 Citations in Scopus 82nd Percentile 1.46 Field-Weighted Citation Impact Cited by 13 documents , (2017) Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering , , (2017) ICEIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , , (2017) ICEIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems Inform me when this document is cited in Scopus:  ▻ View all metrics  A content analysis process for qualitative software engineering research DeFranco, J.F. Laplante, P.A. Relationship between personality traits and software quality Big Five model vs. object-oriented software metrics Barroso, A.S. Da Silva, J.S.M. Souza, T.D.S. Inﬂuence of human Personality in software engineering a systematic literature review Barroso, A.S. Da Silva, J.S.M. Soares, M.S. View all 13 citing documents ▻ Set citation alert ▻ Set citation feed