Personality Type and Student Performance in Principles of Economics

The relationship between students' personality types, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator, and their performance in introductory economics is explored. In addition to comparing a student's learning style with a professor's teaching style, options are suggested for improving instruction by offering a variety of different teaching and grading strategies that better accommodate student personality types and learning styles.

[1]  S. Shapiro,et al.  The Case of Effort Variables in Student Performance , 1989 .

[2]  G. Lawrence.  People types and tiger stripes: A practical guide to learning styles , 1979 .

[3]  Anthony F. Grasha,et al.  A Rational Approach to Developing and Assessing the Construct Validity of a Student Learning Style Scales Instrument , 1974 .

[4]  Dennis M. O'Toole,et al.  The Influence of Learning and Teaching Styles on Student Attitudes and Achievement in the Introductory Economics Course: A Case Study. , 1982 .

[5]  Dennis M. O'Toole,et al.  Linking Teacher and Student Learning Styles with Student Achievement and Attitudes. , 1985 .

[6]  Tony Lima,et al.  An Economic Model of Teaching Effectiveness , 1981 .

[7]  William E. Becker,et al.  Economic Education Research: Part II, New Directions in Theoretical Model Building , 1983 .

[8]  Economic Education Research: Part III, Statistical Estimation Methods , 1983 .

[9]  D. Keirsey,et al.  Please Understand Me: Character and Temperament Types , 1978 .

[10]  John J. Siegfried,et al.  Research on Teaching College Economics: A Survey , 1979 .

[11]  I. B. Myers.  Manual: A Guide to the Development and Use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , 1985 .

[12]  R. McKelvey,et al.  A statistical model for the analysis of ordinal level dependent variables , 1975 .

[13]  J. Provost,et al.  Applications of the Myers Briggs Type Indicator in Higher Education , 1987 .

[14]  Michael J. Mazzeo,et al.  Probit Analysis and Economic Education , 1980 .