An empirical study of the effects of conscientiousness in pair programming using the five-factor personality model

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages 577-586

  Salleh, Norsaremah ^a   Mendes, Emilia ^a   Grundy, John ^b   Burch, Giles St J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

conscientiousness; empirical investigation; five factor model; formal experiment; higher education; pair programming; personality type

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FIVE-FACTOR MODEL; FORMAL EXPERIMENTS; HIGHER EDUCATION; PAIR-PROGRAMMING; PERSONALITY TYPES;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EDUCATION COMPUTING; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 77954717664     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1806799.1806883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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