Hi everyone -
I offer the opinion of just one psychologist. Personality assessment is not my area of expertise but my training in social psychology isn't horribly far afield either.
I suspect that other methods for sorting students into teams would be more effective in creating successful team than using personality traits (e.g., what assets and liabilities do students bring to class). I doubt that students' personality traits are strong predictors of their performance in class or their team interactions. Personality traits may be good predictors of other behaviors and still be poor predictors of class- and team-related behavior. Other variables are probably better predictors of their team success (e.g., students' background in the course material or the number of potential complications in their lives that would make them more or less likely to attend class regularly).
Just my 2 cents.....
lm
Laura Madson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces, NM 88003
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On Apr 21, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Jim Sibley wrote:
> Hi Mark
>
> Pete Ostachuk in Mech Eng has been using Myers-briggs for over a decade to help in Forming his tbl teams....he has also done some nice research on it as well
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> You can contact him at ostafichuk@ mech.ubc.ca.....I know he is about to head out on sabbatical....once he finishes the book chapter he owes me :-)
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> Jim Sibley
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> Sorry for brief message -sent from my iPad
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> On 2013-04-21, at 8:27 AM, Mark Stevens <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all -
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>> I've been thinking a lot about "personality types" lately, and how they might relate to team performance. I would guess that teams with a mixture of different personality types might perform better than those whose students all have the same personality type, and I would also think that it would be good experience for students to have to work with people that have different personality types from their own, independent of whether exposure to different types serves to increase performance.
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>> I am curious to know if any of you use personality type (e.g. Myers-Briggs) information to help form teams, and if so, whether you think it's worth the effort. Do you form the teams on the first day of class? When do you ask the students to complete a personality type questionnaire? Do you try to make sure that the personality types are evenly-distributed across the teams, or do you use some other kind of distribution strategy?
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>> Thanks,
>> Mark
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