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Download full textKaya, Mehmet Melik – Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, 2021
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between global citizenship, multicultural personality and critical thinking in preservice teachers. The study group consisted of 363 preservice teachers who attend different departments of Faculty of Education in Kutahya. Data collection was done through Scale Universal Citizenship,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multicultural Education, Citizenship, Critical Thinking
Kamarulzaman, Wirawani – Online Submission, 2012
This paper is intended to review the affect of personality on learning styles. Costa and McCrae's Five-Factor Model of Personality (The Big 5) is explored against Kolb Learning Styles. The Big 5 factors are extraversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness, whereas Kolb Learning Styles are divergers, assimilators,…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Cognitive Style, Emotional Response, Reflection
Peer reviewedViswesvaran, Chockalingam; Ones, Deniz S. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2000
Used meta-analysis to cumulate reliabilities of personality scale scores, using 848 coefficients of stability and 1,359 internal consistency reliabilities across the Big Five factors of personality. The dimension of personality being measured does not appear to moderate strongly either internal consistency or the test-retest reliabilities.…
Descriptors: Error of Measurement, Meta Analysis, Personality Assessment, Personality Traits
Grover, Cathy A.; And Others – 1988
The assumption that the more able student can recognize a correct answer in a multiple choice situation more quickly than the less able student leads to the prediction that higher scores would be associated with shorter test-taking time. Research investigating this prediction have yielded mixed results, suggesting the need to examine other…
Descriptors: College Students, Higher Education, Performance, Personality Traits
Hoover, Randy L.; Kadunc, Nancy – 1983
The purpose of this paper is to examine the nature of discrepancy score phenomena of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), as related to internal consistency and construct validity of the instrument. Data were collected from 140 university research managers. The data suggest internal consistency problems: only 37.3 percent of the subjects…
Descriptors: Adults, Personality Measures, Personality Traits, Sampling
Arnau, Randolph C.; Thompson, Bruce; Rosen, David H. – 1997
The present study was a psychometric evaluation of two recently revised Jungian personality instruments, the Singer-Loomis Type Deployment Inventory (SL-TDI) and the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ). The study also examined the relationship between Jungian personality dimensions and the Five-Factor Model of personality…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Higher Education, Models, Personality Assessment
Vacha-Haase, Tammi; Thompson, Bruce – 1999
Instruments measuring Carl Jung's (1921/1971) theory of psychological types have been widely used in various counseling contexts. The most popular measure of types has been the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (K. Briggs and I. Myers). This measure has been criticized for dichotomous scoring, forced-choice response formats, and differential gender…
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling, Higher Education, Personality Assessment
Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1994
This study was conducted to evaluate whether the adjectival self-description checklist may provide a viable method of quickly obtaining initial personality type information. The Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPDSQ) was administered to more than 420 college students, and data were analyzed using classical reliability analysis…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Students, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques
Kirisci, Levent; Clark, Duncan B. – 1996
The reliability and validity of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children (STAIC) was studied with 675 adolescents aged 12 to 18 recruited from clinical and community sources. The STAIC is a self-report measure that has been widely used to assess state and trait anxiety of children. It has been suggested that the child version may be more…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Children, Factor Structure
King, Jason E.; Melancon, Janet G.; Thompson, Bruce – 1999
Jungian measures have proven extremely popular, selling more than three million copies per year for use in various types of counseling. This study investigated the construct validity of scores from an alternative measure of Jungian personality, the Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire (PPSDQ) (B. Thompson, 1996). Forms of the PPSDQ…
Descriptors: College Students, Counseling, Factor Structure, Higher Education
Thompson, Bruce; Stone, Elizabeth – 1994
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most frequently used measures of personality. MBTI Form G and a self-descriptive adjectival checklist, the "Personal Preferences Self-Description Questionnaire" (PPSDQ), were administered to 191 college students. The four dimensions of personality measured by the MBTI are:…
Descriptors: Check Lists, College Students, Concurrent Validity, Factor Analysis
Peer reviewedJones, Bonnie J. – Academic Medicine, 1991
A study followed 66 medical students from matriculation through clerkship to determine the use of an anxiety measure, undergraduate grades, and Medical College Admission Test scores in predicting clerkship performance. Results showed disparities in prediction but suggest that the way students are evaluated in clerkships determined which factors…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Clinical Experience, College Entrance Examinations, Grades (Scholastic)
Dart, Barry C.; And Others – 1988
Personal and environmental variables that characterize students who are involved in different types of interactions in different types of classroom settings were studied. Organizational, behavioral, task, response, and initiation interactions were studied in four eighth-year science classrooms using both student-centered and teacher-directed…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Style, Foreign Countries, Individual Characteristics
