Effect of personality traits and learning styles towards students’ academic achievement in Johor Bahru

Aqeel Khan,Amalia Madihie,Sanil S Hishan,Surena Sabil,Mohamed Sharif Mustaffa,Leong Pyh Shin

doi:10.14419/ijet.v7i2.10.10943

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personality traits and learning styles towards the students’ academic achievement in Johor Bahru. A total of 101 students from IPG Kampus Temenggong Ibrahim were chosen to be part of the respondents with the use of simple random sampling. The instrument Big Five Inventory (BFI), Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory and The students’ academic achievement is measured through the Cumulative Grade Point Average, also known as CGPA. Descriptive statistics, Chi-Square Test, Spearman’s Correlation and Multiple Regression was used to anser research questions. The findings revealed that the most common personality traits displayed by the students are Openness and Conscientiousness while the most common learning style displayed by the students is Converger. The research also revealed that there is no significant effect of the combination of both the personality traits and learning style towards the prediction of the academic achievement among school students. The same goes to the difference of personality traits and learning style between male and female students was not significant as well.

Highlights

Every individual is unique in terms of his or her personality traits as well as the learning style, it is important to found out how the combination of the personality traits and the learning style affect the students’ academic performance
According to Kolb [5], it is said that in order for an individual to learn, one must incorporate each of four main learning abilities namely: concrete experience (CE), abstract conceptualization (AC), reflective observation (RO) and active experimentation (AE)
The divergent learning style can be distinguished by the specialization of two abilities, CE and RO while the converging learning style can be distinguished by the specialization of other two abilities, AC and AE

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Introduction

Every individual is unique in terms of his or her personality traits as well as the learning style, it is important to found out how the combination of the personality traits and the learning style affect the students’ academic performance. Characteristics differences that are stable among the individual that described that particular individual in terms of actions, feelings and perceptions are theorized to be part of personality traits [1] These characteristics are further break down into five different aspect of personality namely Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Neuroticism and Openness to Experience, which being found empirically from the research [2]. Specialization of two abilities, CE and AE, form the assimilating learning style whereas in the accommodating learning style, CE and AE are within the specialization of the abilities It is being proposed by [6, 7, 8] that learning styles are crucial in determining the students’ academic performance, the way how the learning is practiced, interaction in both students and teachers and the choices made in academic field. It is imperative that the understanding of learning style of students and its effect on the academic achievement to be grasped by the teachers or educators in the effort to ensure students’ success in academic achievement [9]

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