Haxton, N. (2014, December 17). Personality, Not Intelligence, The Biggest Factor In Determining Academic Success. ABC News. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2014/s4150405.htm.
Doctor Arthur Poropat, having been successful in making significant findings in metacognition and learning, explains the impact this can have on schools, students and universities. Poropat, a senior lecturer of the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University explains that personality is more important than intelligence in education and learning. In this article, Poropat explains three aspects of personality that are crucial; conscientiousness, a desire to meet performance needs, openness to experience, people who are curious and wish …show more content…
Poropat believes that screening a candidates personality, or goal orientation, should be the main factor of whether that student should be enrolled at university or not. In addition, unlike intelligence, Poropat believes that it is achievable to teach a student or child personalities skills in order to help their learning, for example, he believes that parents should help children develop learning goals and make educational experiences interesting.
This article is useful to my research as Poropat explicitly states the importance of seeking to improve personality and goal orientation to improve learning and academic success. In Addition, Poropat emphasises how important it is for teachers and parents to begin to teach their children to want to learn – not just try and alter their intelligence. Furthermore, this supports my analysis that personality and goal orientation should be screened to determined whether a student will do well in university or …show more content…
Furthermore, their study indicates that course satisfaction has a positive relationship with course grades.
This article is useful to my research because it addresses the relationship between mastery goals and performance goals specifically in the tertiary environment.
I feel that the author’s research can be critiqued in one respect. The research methodology that was implemented can be questionable as they only research 220 undergraduates from one university, possibly leading to reliability concerns, however, as opposed to my analysis, this was completed over a 5 semester course, meaning that it took into consideration changes in motivation, goal orientation, drop-out rates, success rates, whereas my previous research only focused on one survey and the GPA results. Meaning this may have explicit findings that could alter the way universities take in enrolments – by assessing their goal
Doctor Arthur Poropat, having been successful in making significant findings in metacognition and learning, explains the impact this can have on schools, students and universities. Poropat, a senior lecturer of the School of Applied Psychology at Griffith University explains that personality is more important than intelligence in education and learning. In this article, Poropat explains three aspects of personality that are crucial; conscientiousness, a desire to meet performance needs, openness to experience, people who are curious and wish …show more content…
Poropat believes that screening a candidates personality, or goal orientation, should be the main factor of whether that student should be enrolled at university or not. In addition, unlike intelligence, Poropat believes that it is achievable to teach a student or child personalities skills in order to help their learning, for example, he believes that parents should help children develop learning goals and make educational experiences interesting.
This article is useful to my research as Poropat explicitly states the importance of seeking to improve personality and goal orientation to improve learning and academic success. In Addition, Poropat emphasises how important it is for teachers and parents to begin to teach their children to want to learn – not just try and alter their intelligence. Furthermore, this supports my analysis that personality and goal orientation should be screened to determined whether a student will do well in university or …show more content…
Furthermore, their study indicates that course satisfaction has a positive relationship with course grades.
This article is useful to my research because it addresses the relationship between mastery goals and performance goals specifically in the tertiary environment.
I feel that the author’s research can be critiqued in one respect. The research methodology that was implemented can be questionable as they only research 220 undergraduates from one university, possibly leading to reliability concerns, however, as opposed to my analysis, this was completed over a 5 semester course, meaning that it took into consideration changes in motivation, goal orientation, drop-out rates, success rates, whereas my previous research only focused on one survey and the GPA results. Meaning this may have explicit findings that could alter the way universities take in enrolments – by assessing their goal