Personality, assessment methods and academic performance

Instructional Science

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 975-987

  Furnham, Adrian ^a   Nuygards, Sarah ^b   Chamorro Premuzic, Tomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Big Five; Gender; GPA; Personality; University assessment methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884131189     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-012-9259-9     Document Type: Article

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