Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants
Personality Profiles and Computing Majors: Predictive or Anecdotal, Informing or Useless?
Department
School of Computing and Information Systems
College
Padnos College of Engineering and Computing
Date Range
2012-2013
Disciplines
Engineering
Abstract
Over the last 8 years, I have routinely given online free personality profile assessments in an undergraduate IS Project Management class. During some of these years, I also gave this same assessment to masters level students taking an IS Project Management class in an elective three-course IS track. The aggregate result of those assessments is that there is one personality type prevalent among these senior Information Systems majors. The graduate Project Management class is an elective in the Masters in Computer Information Systems program and shows an even higher percentage of the same personality type. Are these assessments something that could be useful in guiding students into one or the other computing disciplines (CS, IS, IT)? Would a more in-depth knowledge of positive and negative traits of personality types in general help faculty members in student advising of and interaction with students already enrolled in a computing major?
Conference Name
NCC 2013
Conference Location
St. Louis, MO
ScholarWorks Citation
Reynolds, John, "Personality Profiles and Computing Majors: Predictive or Anecdotal, Informing or Useless?" (2013). Faculty Scholarly Dissemination Grants. 1085.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/fsdg/1085
