ISSN 2601-8616 (print) ISSN 2601-8624 (online) European Journal of Education September-December 2018 Volume 1, Issue 3 37 The Personal Traits and the Academic Accomplishments of the Students at the Faculties of Pedagogy Lulzim Murtezani Faculty of Philosophy, State University of Tetovo , (FYROM) Abstract This is an academic-research paper consisting of two parts: a theoretical and an empirical one. The theoretical part defines the conceptual basis, i.e. the frames of the research project. This means that it primarily deals with some relevant assumptions, such as the personal traits in the context of the academic accomplishments of the students that attend courses for teachers and educators. We conducted an empirical research to determine the role of these components. We opted for the technique of a non-probabilistic research of the sample. It consists of 115 students attending the first cycle of studies at the faculties of pedagogy. We used Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) as an instrument to measure the following traits: neuroticism – stability, extroversion – introversion, and psychoticism. A simple one-way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to process the data. The result analysis led to the following conclusions: 1. The students differ in the academic accomplishments based on the variable of neuroticism; and 2. The students differ in the accomplishments based on the variable extraversion. We also suggest that other researches in this scientific area are conducted for a detailed analysis of the relation between the personality traits and the academic accomplishments. Keywords: personal traits, neuroticism , extroversion , psychoticism ,academic accomplishments Introduction This paper is an academic research consisting of a theoretical and an empirical part. The theoretical part defines the conceptual basis, i.e. the frame of the academic research project. It highlights some relevant (internal) personal assumptions dealing with: a) the personal traits and b) the academic achievements of the students enrolled at teaching faculties. We are going to try and determine the role of these components by carrying out an empirical research. Personal Characteristics – Personality Traits Modern literature advocates that in order to better describe and anticipate the behavior of people, we need to take into account the personal traits, such as the fundamental dimensions of the personality (Myers, 1999). These personality traits influence not only the specific behavior of people, in our case – the students, but also their preparedness to face the challenges of the process of study. Nonetheless, the concept of personality cannot be defined that easily. This is one modern definition of personality (Caver and Scheier, 2000): “Personality is a dynamic organization of psychophysical systems that produce characteristic models of behavior of the person, together with thinking and feelings inside the person” (p.5). Today, many theoreticians agree that the traits are the basic structural units of the personality. The theory of traits is mostly used in empirical researches because it offers a basis for developing valid and reliable measurements of the individual differences. They are mostly determined as a broad system of similar tendencies in the behavior of specific individuals (McCrae and Costa, 1985). According to Allport (1962), the traits are related to the character, the temperament, and the abilities. Their influence is mostly reflected on the health, thinking and working performances (Hogan, 1986; McKenzie,1989). Cattell (1963) discussed that the behavior of the individuals, i.e. their reactions are the result of the personality and the situation they find themselves in. Regarding this theory, not much is done until the eighth decade of the previous century when many psychologists confirmed that these factors are very important for a successful description of the personality (Costa, 1992). Currently, there is a great interest in the five-factor-model of the personality. Norman (1963) stresses that these five factors can accurately describe the personality.