The Effect of Personality Traits on Students´ Performance during Computer-Based Testing: A Study of the Big Five Inventory with Temporal Learning Analytics

Provision of adaptive and personalized Computer Based Assessment (CBA) services to learners is a multidimensional research field. In this paper we investigate the effect of extraversion and conscientiousness with temporal learning analytics on students´ performance during computer based testing. For this purpose, we used the LAERS assessment environment to track the temporal activity - time spent behavior - of 96 students and the Big Five Instrument (BFI) questionnaire to record their personality traits. Partial Least Squares (PLS) was used to find fundamental relationships between the collected data. Preliminary results indicate a positive effect of conscientiousness on (un-)certainty and a positive effect of extraversion on goal expectancy. Further implications of these results are also discussed.