Understanding Team Personality Evolution in Student Engineering Design Teams Using the Five Factor Model

Abstract

This research explores the role of personalities in engineering design teams in a capstone course using the Five Factor Model of Personality. Specifically, the self and peer assessed personality profiles are across a semester project. After four iterations, the expectation was that peers would be better able to identify their teammates personality traits. Results show that the peer evaluations do change over time. For the factors of Openness, Conscientiousness, and Agreeableness, the agreement between self and peer evaluations increased from Iteration 2 to Iteration 4. The Extraversion factor agreement increased, but not to the point where the peer and self-evaluations did not have statistically significant differences. The agreement between the self and peer evaluations for Neuroticism decreased over time. Extended results, limitations, and future work are also discussed.

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“…Next, a review of literature is important regarding how team members perceive sharing personal assessment data. Regarding accuracy, prior research has pointed to Big 5 personality data being accurate throughout projects , with other research even showing that teammates can more accurately assess their teammate personalities at the end of the project compared to the beginning (Stidham, Flynn, et al, 2018). Meanwhile, to the authors knowledge, no research has investigated perceptions of accuracy for CM assessments in teamwork settings.…”