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Visible Learning MetaX™
Version 1.3 – Updated November 2024

Student personality: Open to experience

Overview

  • Influence: Student personality: Open to experience
  • Domain: Student
  • Sub-Domain: Student personality
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 6
  • Number of studies: 4,008
  • Number of students: 820,183
  • Number of effects: 5,795
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.51
  • Robustness index: 5

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author First Author's Country Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Journal of Educational Psychology Gatzka & Hell Switzerland Openness and postsecondary academic performance: A meta-analysis of facet-, aspect-, and dimension-level correlations 2018 Openness to experience 28 5,861 28 0.02
Journal of Personality Mammadov USA Big Five personality traits and academic performance: A meta-analysis 2021 Big Five Open to experience 237 267,611 237 0.26
Personality and Individual Differences Hessen & Kuncel USA Beyond grades: A meta-analysis of personality predictors of academic behavior in middle school and high school.  2022 Openness to experience 44 24,944 44 0.47
Conference paper Meyer & Jansen USA An updated meta-analysis of personality and academic performance: The role of domain and achievement measure 2022 Openness to experience 125 512,914 1,807 0.16
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Stanek & Ones USA Meta-analytic relations between personality and cognitive ability.  2023 Openness to experience 3,543 0 3,542 0.54
Educational Psychology Review Chen, He, Swanson, Cai, & Fan China Big five personality traits and second language learning: A meta-analysis of 40 years' research.  2021 Openness to experience 31 8,853 137 0.47
TOTAL/AVERAGE 4,008 820,183 5,795 0.32
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