PERSONALITY TYPE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO DISTANCE EDUCATION STUDENTS' COURSE PERCEPTIONS AND PERFORMANCE.

DISTANCE education; PERSONALITY & academic achievement; ACADEMIC achievement testing; STUDENT attitudes; MYERS-Briggs Type Indicator; PERSONALITY assessment

This one-shot case study of 39 graduate students in a distance education course explored the relationships between students' course perceptions and performance, based on their Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality preferences. Perceptions of instructional technique used by the distance instructor were strongly correlated to the students' course grade and overall grade point average for the following personality types: extravert, introvert, intuitive, sensing, feeling, and judging. Of the MBTI type preferences, only thinking and perceiving types showed no significant correlations between course perceptions and performance indicators. Findings from this study indicate that performance outcomes for distance education students may be closely related to course perceptions as a function of personality type preference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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