Profil Personaliti dalam Kalangan Pensyarah UTM yang Cemerlang dalam Pengajaran dan Pembelajaran Berdasarkan Penilaian Pengajaran Pensyarah

Abstract

This study aims to identify the personality profile among UTM lecturers who were excellent in teaching and learning based on the lecturers‟ teaching evaluation system (PPP) for semester 2 session 2007/2008 and semester 1 2008/2009. This study is corellational study and used the Big Five Personality Traits as framework research. A total of 52 lecturers had been selected using purposive sampling method. NEO-PI-R inventory set by McCrae & Costa (1992) and translated by Khairul Anwar (2000) had been used in this study. It shows a high level of reliability which demonstrated the alpha Cronbach value of .870 for Neuroticism, .804 for Extraversion, .790 for Openness to Experience, .682 for Agreeableness and .904 for Conscientiousness. Overall, the value of alpha Cronbach is .813. The data collected were analyzed using ‟Statistical Packages for Social Sciences(SPSS v12 for windows). The result of the descriptive analysis showed that the majority of excellent lecturers have conscientiousness profile of personality ( mean=182.57), followed by agreeableness (mean=175.75) and extraversion (mean=160.019). The finding also showed that there was no significant between the profile of personality and achievement among the excellent lecturers.