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The Effect of Personality and Precollege Characteristics on First-Year Activities and Academic Performance
- Journal of College Student Development
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 44, Number 3, May/June 2003
- pp. 277-290
- 10.1353/csd.2003.0023
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The relationship between students' gender, personality traits, predicted first-year grades, and quality of effort put forth in academic and personal/social activities with academic achievement and critical thinking was examined for 265 first-year science and engineering undergraduates enrolled at a selective doctoral-extensive university. Results show that some personality traits influence the quality of effort expended with academic and personal/social activities as well as end-of-first-year grades and a measure of critical thinking.