Academic Achievement Meassurement Based On Personality

Abstract

As it is well-known, students' academic achievement and students' personally types are very important regarding of the effectiveness of academic programs. This research aims at clarifying the relation between students' personality types and their academic performance. The research has been conducted on 252 students attending at School of Vocational Studies. According to the research findings, there are strong relationships between students' personality types and their academic achievement.

Based on The Five Factor Model, Inventory is an evaluation tool which is improved according to the Turkish culture. Validity and reliability analysis (dimensional self consistency cofactors vary between 0,75 and 0,81; test repeat cofactors vary between 0,78 and 0,86) show that inventory consists strong psychometric features. The results obtained from inventory were evaluated by using raw points and not norm points.