Student retention from first-year engineering related to personality type

Author

Rosati, Peter

Author_Institution

Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada

fYear

1993

fDate

6-9 Nov 1993

Firstpage

37

Lastpage

39

Abstract

The author presents some of the results from the first five years of a longitudinal study of the personality type, measured by the MBTI (Myers-Briggs type indicator), of engineering students at The University of Western Ontario. The long-term goals of the project are to relate personality type to choice of engineering discipline and subsequent success and satisfaction in that discipline. The personality profiles of those students who succeed in first year engineering have been examined in comparison with the profile of the entry class. Male/female type differences and cross-cultural American/Canadian comparisons have also been considered

Keywords

engineering education; gender issues; Myers-Briggs type indicator; Western Ontario University; cross-cultural American/Canadian comparisons; first-year engineering; male/female type differences; personality type; student retention; Decision making; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Engineering education; Engineering students; Environmental factors; Human factors; Instruments; Psychology; Reflection;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1482-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1993.405572

Filename

405572