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Jess Wei Chin Tan; Horn Mun Cheah; Hian Chye Koh – Cogent Education, 2024
The effects of the direct and indirect relationships of personality traits on academic performance are shared in this paper. These complex relationships are examined using Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with reference to the modified Biggs' 3P model. The major findings of the effects of personality traits on academic performance are (1) the…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, College Students, Correlation
Yuan Liang; Ting Ji; Shuying Zhou; Xiaolin Liu; Hao Yan – British Educational Research Journal, 2025
Constructing personalised and effective online language learning models based on individual personality differences is crucial in the field of education. However, there is little research on how to apply these models to students in science and engineering who have varying personality profiles. This study aimed to assess the validity of the Online…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, College Students
Albar, Read A.; Mohamed, Ayman M. A.; Albarazi, Mohieddin A. B.; McAleer, Sean; Shaibah, Hassan S. – Advances in Physiology Education, 2022
Students with varying personality traits are likely to employ diverse learning and study strategies. However, this relationship has never been explored in the medical education context. This study's aim was to explore the relationship between learning strategies and personality traits among medical students. This study was a cross-sectional study,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Strategies, Personality Traits, Medical Students
Dajung Diane Shin – Educational Psychology, 2024
The mass migration to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has increased students' burden of self-regulating their learning. Amid this change, students with low self-efficacy may struggle due to their tendency to exhibit poor self-regulated learning and course outcomes. This study investigated the potential buffering role of students'…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Self Management, Learning Strategies, Academic Achievement
Mahmood, Monowar; Frolova, Yuliya; Gupta, Bhumika – Education & Training, 2021
Purpose: Personality traits are assumed to influence cognitive processes as well as academic motivation and learning approaches of the students. Based on these assumptions, the present study investigates the association of HEXACO personality traits with academic motivation as well as influence of those traits on students' learning approaches in…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Academic Achievement, Foreign Countries, Individual Differences
Aldo Ramirez-Arellano – SAGE Open, 2024
Several investigations have focused on the relationship between personality and learning performance. However, the relationships among personality traits, motivation, emotional and behavioral engagement, and metacognitive-cognitive strategies remain unexplored. This research introduces a model based on a personality system set comprising…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Student Motivation, Learner Engagement, Metacognition
Carolyn Spriggs Muchna – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Projected qualified nursing deficits and high student attrition levels highlighted need to investigate cultivation of grit, a malleable trait involving perseverance and passion despite challenges and difficulties. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive study was to investigate how second-year nursing students with high levels of…
Descriptors: Nursing Education, Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence
Nonis, Sarath A.; Hudson, Gail I.; Philhours, Melodie J. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2021
Higher education has historically focused on demographics to target prospective students in recruitment and retention efforts. This study focuses on the effect of psychographic and behavioral elements at the learner level to identify student segments and to influence the outcomes that lead to retention and ultimately graduation. Psychographics…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Learning Strategies, Student Characteristics, Personality Traits
Al-Qirim, Nabeel; Rouibah, Kamel; Serhani, Mohamad Adel; Tarhini, Ali; Maqableh, Mahmoud; Khalil, Ashraf; Gergely, Marton – Education and Information Technologies, 2020
This research develops a model to investigate the influence of different determinants on student's Academic Performance (AP) in UAE University (UAEU). The model consists of Big Five personality traits (BigF) and other learning-orientation strategies. The importance of this research to the UAE's context stems from the fact that determinants of AP…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Personality Traits
Hertel, Silke; Karlen, Yves – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Background: Implicit theories are important belief systems that influence an individual's motivation and behaviour. In academic contexts, domain-general implicit theories of ability (e.g., intelligence) and their relation to self-regulated learning (SRL) have been examined. Aims: In this study, we followed a domain-specific approach and first…
Descriptors: Self Management, Achievement Need, Goal Orientation, Learning Strategies
Schrempft, S.; Piumatti, G.; Gerbase, M. W.; Baroffio, A. – Advances in Health Sciences Education, 2021
This study examined conscientiousness and the perceived educational environment as independent and interactive predictors of medical students' performance within Biggs' theoretical model of learning. Conscientiousness, the perceived educational environment, and learning approaches were assessed at the beginning of the third year in 268 medical…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Educational Environment, Predictor Variables
Turan, Mehmet Behzat; Koç, Kenan – World Journal of Education, 2019
The puropose of this study is to examine the effect of learning strategies on physical education candidates and their motivation of curiosity and levels of exploration. In accordance with this purpose, the study group is formed by the randomly chosen senior year students of Erciyes, Ömer Halisdemir, Aksaray, Dumlupinar, Gaziantep, Firat, Selçuk,…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Preservice Teachers, Learning Strategies, Student Motivation
Mu-Hsuan Chou – Educational Psychology, 2023
Approaches to learning a second/foreign language can be affected by such individual differences as personality traits, motivational variables, and task difficulty. Personality traits have been proven to influence academic achievement, but their effects on motivation and language learning approaches remain unanswered. The first purpose of the study…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), Task Analysis
Lori Ogden; Marjorie Darrah; Monica Leppma – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Math anxiety refers to feelings people get when facing computational challenges. The fear of failure often causes people to avoid activities, like taking challenging mathematics courses or choosing majors that require mathematics. Grit describes how people persist or persevere in the wake of failure. This article looks at factors that contribute…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Resilience (Psychology), Mathematics Anxiety, Metacognition
Rusen Meylani – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant change in college mathematics education toward online learning, which has advantages and disadvantages for students, instructors, and institutions. To ensure the effectiveness of online learning, it is crucial to understand the factors that influence its success. This study looks at the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Instructional Effectiveness, Electronic Learning