Considering personality type in adult learning: Using the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator in instructor preparation at PricewaterhouseCoopers

This article explores the feasibility of using the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a framework for instructor development in a professional services training environment. It explores the consistency of MBTI with common adult learning theory, addresses questions on MBTI's reliability and validity, and explores the applicability of MBTI to the training environment at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, a global accounting and consultancy firm.     

Learning Styles Relevant to Identified Personality Types of Secondary Level Students

This study investigated the inter-relationships between learning styles as measured by Kolb's Learning Style Inventory 1985 (LSI) and personality types as measured by Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The two instruments were administered to tenth grade students in Singapore. The canonical correlation analysis revealed two significant canonical correlation coefficients, indicating moderate relationships between the variables of the LSI and MBTI. The canonical variates represented abstract thinking and reflective thinking, factors associated by the students with academic achievement. The LSI types and the MBTI learning profiles of the sample were also examined.     

Adapting Social Work Education to Student Diversity

ABSTRACT

Basic differences in temperament, learning styles, motivation, and interaction styles have major impacts on people yet receive little attention in social work education. Faculty must understand the different ways students learn and be receptive to new patterns of teaching in order to achieve educational excellence. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one tool that identifies specific preferences among individuals that explain difference in learning styles. This paper discusses educational considerations in implementing a “type-sensitive” curriculum in social work education, including strategies for using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to differentiate learning styles and strategies for facilitating educators' and students' ability to appreciate these differences. It examines the ways in which differences in type can complement each other in the educational process. Understanding difference can provide insights into personal, academic, and professional performance, as well as an appreciation of the diversity of client types.     

Responding to the invisible student

As reflective writing plays a more prominent role in pedagogy and in assessment, teachers need a greater awareness of the assumptions they bring to the task of assigning and reading reflective texts. Beginning with the question, “What constitutes good reflection?” this study describes how one instructor used the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to explore her responses to the reflective writing produced by preservice English teachers. The author concludes that the MBTI can provide insight into how instructors assign, respond to, and evaluate student reflection; the MBTI can also be used to help teachers improve these practices. She offers suggestions for responding to different kinds of reflective writing and cautions against using reflective writing as a way to assess student understanding.     

高职大学生的MBTI人格类型研究

MBTI是国际上最为普遍使用的人格类型方法,通过对高职大学生的MBTI人格特征及男女高职大学生在MBTI人格类型与特征倾向差异的探讨与分析,可以帮助大学生正确认识自己,了解职业潜能,树立正确的职业发展观,从而增强自身的职业能力。     

师范类大学生心理健康与人格类型相关研究

探究师范类大学生心理健康情况与MBTI人格类型之间的关系:具有某些心理症状的个体,在人格特征上有什么特征?不同类型的人格更容易表现哪种类型的症状?通过调查研究给心理健康教育工作者对相关人群及时进行辅导和干预提供参考.     

师范类大学生心理健康与人格类型相关研究

探究师范类大学生心理健康情况与MBTI人格类型之间的关系：具有某些心理症状的个体,在人格特征上有什么特征？不同类型的人格更容易表现哪种类型的症状？通过调查研究给心理健康教育工作者对相关人群及时进行辅导和干预提供参考。     

An empirical study of using sequential behavior pattern mining approach to predict learning styles

The learning style of a learner is an important parameter in his learning process. Therefore, learning styles should be considered in the design, development, and implementation of e-learning environments to increase learners’ performance. Thus, it is important to be able to automatically determine learning styles of learners in an e-learning environment. In this paper, we propose a sequential pattern mining approach to extract frequent sequential behavior patterns, which can separate learners with different learning styles. In this research, in order to recognize learners’ learning styles, system uses the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator’s (MBTI). The approach has been implemented and tested in an e-learning environment and the results show that learning styles of learners can be predicted with high accuracy. We show that learners with similar learning styles have similar sequential behavior patterns in interaction with an e-learning environment. A lot of frequent sequential behavior patterns were extracted which some of them have a meaningful relation with MBTI dimensions.     

光线在Bom-Infeld型引力场中的偏转

1 Introduction The nonlinear Born-Infeld ( B-I) type theory hasbeen widely discussed ,and B-I type Lagrangians con-sidered in strings theory[1-9].It is of interest to discussthe angular deflection of light path in this theory.Inthe string theory, effective actions of fields containboth the quadratic and higher orders terms ,leading tonon-linear field equations .It was shown[10-15]that thelow-energy effective action is precisely a B-I typeaction[16].In the B-I type theory of electricweak a…     

Evaluation of computer‐aided instruction in a gross anatomy course: A six‐year study

Web‐based computer‐aided instruction (CAI) has become increasingly important to medical curricula. This multi‐year study investigated the effectiveness of CAI and the factors affecting level of individual use. Three CAI were tested that differed in specificity of applicability to the curriculum and in the level of student interaction with the CAI. Student personality preferences and learning styles were measured using the Meyers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI). Information on “computer literacy” and use of CAI was collected from student surveys. Server logs were used to quantify individual use of respective CAI. There was considerable variability in the level of utilization of each CAI by individual students. Individual use of each CAI differed and was associated with gender, MBTI preferences and learning style, but not with “computer literacy.” The majority of students found the CAI useful for learning and used the CAI by themselves. Students who accessed the CAI resources most frequently scored significantly higher on exams compared with students who never accessed the resources. Our results show that medical students do not uniformly use CAI developed for their curriculum and this variability is associated with various attributes of individual students. Our data also provide evidence of the importance of understanding student preferences and learning styles when implementing CAI into the curriculum. Anat Sci Ed 2:2–8, 2009. © 2009 American Association of Anatomists.     

What changes in conceptual change?

This paper has two aims. First, it reviews literature about conceptual change and about the study of concepts more broadly. The principal claim is that much prior work has suffered from inexplicitness and imprecision in terms of what constitutes a concept. Second, we introduce a theory of one particular type of concept. A coordination class is a systematic collection of strategies for reading a certain type of information out from the world. We identify both structural components and performance properties of coordination classes. Using this theory, we analyse protocol data from a student with respect to the difficult concept of force in Newtonian mechanics.     

高职学生职业倾向研究

在本研究中,我们随机抽取温州科技职业学院2006级和2007级13个专业801名学生作为研究对象。采用问卷调查和软件测试相结合、集体辅导和个别辅导相结合的方法。测试工具包括MBTI性格自测问卷、Holland职业倾向量表和学生就业意向调查表等三种。针对测试和调查结果,课题组提出了高职职业指导的相应对策建议。     

Correlates of formal reasoning: Content and problem effects

Piaget's structural theory of formal thought suggests that a general construct of formal reasoning exists. The content of the task and type of problem employed are often ignored in Piagetian based studies but are important for generalizing findings to other studies and to educational problems. The study reported here examines content and problem effects of formal thought in 13-year-old adolescents. Specifically, three controlling variables tasks with different content and two question type tests (analysis and controlling questions) were administered to 120 seventh graders. Ability measures and personality dimensions associated with formal reasoning in the literature are used to clarify what formal reasoning is and how content and problem type are involved in formal reasoning. Significant main effects were found for problem and content effects (p = 0.001), and a significant interaction was found between the two (p = 0.001). Across the three tasks general ability, field dependency, and locus of control were consistently and significantly related to the controlling questions. However, only measures of field dependency were related to the analysis questions. Combinations of ability and personality factors were found to be uniquely related to each task, within each question type. Results have implications for a theory of formal thought and the teaching of the controlling variables strategy.     

Testing moral foundation theory: Are specific moral emotions elicited by specific moral transgressions?

Moral foundation theory posits that specific moral transgressions elicit specific moral emotions. To test this claim, participants (N = 195) were asked to rate their emotions in response to moral violation vignettes. We found that compassion and disgust were associated with care and purity respectively as predicted by moral foundation theory. However, anger, rage, contempt, resentment and fear were not associated to any single moral transgression. Thus, even though the type of moral violation matters for the type of emotion that is elicited, the link between moral foundations and moral emotions seems more complex than moral foundation theory suggests. Rather, the findings suggest that there are both emotion-specific foundations (i.e. care and purity) and emotion-unspecific foundations (i.e. fairness, authority and loyalty).     

Content,Joseph Schwab and German Didaktik

This article attempts to extend and deepen the conversation concerning the knowledge-based approach to curriculum espoused by Michael Young in his 2013 JCS paper through revisiting the structure of the disciplines thinking of Joseph Schwab and German Didaktik. It argues that curriculum making requires a theory of knowledge that not only differentiates different types of knowledge but also elucidates the concepts, theories, methods and habits of mind within a particular knowledge type that contribute to the cultivation of students’ intellectual and moral powers or capacities. Furthermore, it needs a theory of content that addresses how knowledge is selected and transformed into curriculum content, what educational potential content has, and how such potential can be disclosed or unlocked for the cultivation.     

大学生的心理类型研究

目的是揭示大学生心理类型的状况与特点.方法是以MBTI(Myers-Briggs Yype Indicator)量表对我国346名大学生进行团体纸笔测验.结果:1)我国当代大学生最突出的、比例最高、人数最多的心理类型是ISTJ(内向感觉思维判断型,占15.6%),比例最低、人数最少的心理类型为ISTP(内向感觉思维知觉型,占1.4%).2)外向型(占56%)的大学生高于内向型(占44%)的大学生;感觉型(占27.7%)的大学生高于直觉型(21.9%)的大学生;思维型(占32.2%)的大学生要远多于情感型(占17.2%)的大学生;判断型大学生的比例(占49.4%)与知觉型的大学生的比例(50.6%)非常接近.3)影响心理类型的自变量的重要程度由强到弱分别依次是专业、民族、年级、生源,性别的影响程度很小,政治身份对心理类型产生负面影响.4)虽然专业、民族、年级、生源、性别、政治身份对心理类型的影响没有统计上的显著差异,但还是各具特点.结论:大学生心理类型最多的是ISTI、ESTJ,最少的是ISTP.     

Using Group Viewing of Television to Teach Preschool Children Social Skills

This quasi‐experimental field study assessed whether group viewing of television in a day‐care setting can be used to encourage prosocial behavior in young children. Drawing from social learning theory and cognitive‐developmental stage theory, four short‐ term programs were designed and tested. Children (aged 3‐5 years) from eight day‐care centers in Montreal (n = 150) were part of the study. Intact groups (two settings randomly assigned to condition) participated in 8 days of intervention consisting of group viewing of video‐taped segments of Sesame Street, followed by participation in activities. The programs were evaluated using a 2 X 2 X 2 factorial pretest—post‐test design with video‐type (prosocial, cognitive), activity‐type (cooperative, individualistic), and gender as the three factors. Measures included free‐play observations, a perspective‐taking ability test, and two qualitative measures describing the context. Analysis of covariance (pretest and age combined as covariates) revealed a significant main effect for video‐type on prosocial behavior, and a significant interaction between video‐type and activity‐type on antisocial behavior. Results suggest that prosocial modelling using television can encourage prosocial behavior in the day‐care setting. A group‐viewing context, with or without post‐viewing enactive prosocial training, may enhance prosocial modeling effects.     

学前教育专业学生专业认同与人格类型的关系

以学前教育专业学生为研究对象,进行了MBTI人格测验,并采用问卷调查与Go/No-go联想测验(GNAT)两种方式了解被试的专业认同状况及其与专业认同的关系。研究发现:总体上,学前教育专业本科生的人格类型以ESFJ(外倾感觉情感判断)、ESTJ(外倾感觉思考判断)、ISFJ(内倾上感觉情感判断)为主;被试在外显态度与内隐态度上对该专业均较为认同,但有部分被试出现了外显—内隐认同分离效应;此外,人格类型与专业认同之间存在一定关联,部分人格维度可作为判断大学生专业认同状况的有效变量。