I did my dissertation research with "Big Five Inventory." It's a 25 item survey measuring Extraversion, Openness to Experience, Conscientiousness, Agreeability, and Neuroticism.
For what it's worth, my strongest finding was that introverts had significantly more accurate performance reputations than extraverts on *every* single test.
(They didn't necessarily perform better, but their team-mates more accurately dialed in to their ability level--whatever it was.)
I thought extraverts would have more accurate reputations because they would be motivated to verbalize about their preparation, performance, thought processes, etc. and thereby give team-mates more information with which to gauge their level of expertise.
The opposite turned out to be true--introverts were the ones people more accurately "got a bead on."
Perhaps a signal-to-noise ratio effect. :-)
-Michael
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Subject: Re: personality tests for creating teams
Christine-
I also use the VARK inventory (www.vark-learn.com) and then plot their
scores on a chart so that I can see the best way to distribute them in
to heterogeneous groups as a result. In 2001 I wrote a pair of
articles for the Teaching Professor, which outlined this very process.
Juli
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Quoting Christine Kuramoto <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I seem to remember that once someone mentioned dividing teams by
> personality type. In May I'll be having the same group of students I
> had last year. Last year's teams were divided by English proficiency
> (distributing talents equally among teams). I'd like to try
> something different this time, but since the group is otherwise
> homogeneous (all 20-something Japanese medical students in their 3rd
> year), the only thing that seems feasible is dividing by personality
> types.
>
> Can anyone recommend a good free printable version of a personality
> inventory I could use on the first day of class?
>
> Thanks!
> Christine
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