Comparing Personality and Learning Styles with Academic Performance
Turning our attention to testing the proposed hypotheses, a Pearson Product Coefficient was calculated between each of the BFI indicators and academic performance (Table 4). Conscientiousness was the only scale to show a significance (p<0.05)—albeit a negative one—when correlated with the first midterm exam. However, this correlation was less significant when Conscientiousness was compared with academic performance over the entire semester (p@0.06).
In analyzing whether learning styles as measured by the ILS can predict academic performance, there appeared to be no significance at all (Table 5).
Table 4: Pearson product coefficients between BFI factors and performance on the first midterm and cumulative academic performance
|
Exam #1 |
Academic Performance |
|
Extraversion |
Pearson Correlation |
-.201 |
-.026 |
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.247 |
.882 |
Agreeableness |
Pearson Correlation |
-.184 |
-.202 |
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.291 |
.245 |
Conscientiousness |
Pearson Correlation |
-.374(*) |
-.321 |
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.027 |
.060 |
Neuroticism |
Pearson Correlation |
-.023 |
-.087 |
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.896 |
.621 |
Openness |
Pearson Correlation |
-.057 |
-.091 |
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.747 |
.603 |
Exam #1 |
Pearson Correlation |
|
.856(**) |
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
|
.000 |
* Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed). ** Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed). |
Table 5: Pearson product coefficients comparing ILS styles with academic performance
ILS Style |
|
Academic Performance |
|
ACT |
Pearson Correlation |
-.190 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.275 |
|
REF |
Pearson Correlation |
.186 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.284 |
|
SNS |
Pearson Correlation |
-.101 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.563 |
|
INT |
Pearson Correlation |
.101 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.563 |
|
VIS |
Pearson Correlation |
-.117 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.505 |
|
VRB |
Pearson Correlation |
.117 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.505 |
|
SEQ |
Pearson Correlation |
-.193 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.268 |
|
GLO |
Pearson Correlation |
.193 |
|
|
Sig. (2-tailed) |
.268 |
|