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Using personality inventories to form teams for class projects: a case study

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Rebecca H. RutherfoordAuthors Info & Claims

SIGITE '06: Proceedings of the 7th conference on Information technology education

Pages 9 - 14

https://doi.org/10.1145/1168812.1168817

Published: 19 October 2006 Publication History

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Many Information Technology classes require some sort of team project. As part of research into using personality inventories to help form project teams, the author conducted a case study in a software engineering/systems analysis class using a control group methodology for group selection after giving a personality inventory to students. This paper will discuss concepts of personality inventories, how they can be used for group selection, the case study itself, and further discussion of how this can be applied in other classes. The primary personality inventory used is the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.

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Using personality inventories to form teams for class projects: a case study
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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SIGITE '06: Proceedings of the 7th conference on Information technology education

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DOI:10.1145/1168812

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