The Effect of Personality Traits on Students' Performance during Computer-Based Testing: A Study of the Big Five Inventory with Temporal Learning Analytics

Abstract

Provision of adaptive and personalized Computer Based Assessment (CBA) services to learners is a multidimensional research field. In this paper we investigate the effect of extraversion and conscientiousness with temporal learning analytics on students' performance during computer based testing. For this purpose, we used the LAERS assessment environment to track the temporal activity - time spent behavior - of 96 students and the Big Five Instrument (BFI) questionnaire to record their personality traits. Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used to find fundamental relationships between the collected data. Preliminary results indicate a positive effect of conscientiousness on (un-)certainty and a positive effect of extraversion on goal expectancy. Further implications of these results are also discussed.