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

• Main Authors: Salleh, Norsaremah, Mendes, Emilia, Grundy, John, Burch, Giles St. J.
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: ACM Press 2010
• Subjects: QA76 Computer software
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/1343/1/SallehMendesGrundyGiles__ICSE10.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/1343/; http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1806883
• Institution: Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

This paper describes a formal experiment carried out to investigate the effect of the Personality factor conscientiousness on the effectiveness of Pair Programming as a pedagogical tool in higher Education. This experiment took place at the University of Auckland, using as subjects undergraduate st...