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Big Five personality traits; Culture; Higher education; Learning; UAE

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The ever-lurking question that has always engaged educators is what drives students to effectively learn and excel. In their review of the literature, Zhang and Ziegler (2016) reported that although there is a plethora of cognitive, personality, and other narrower traits that contribute to student performance however, meta-analyses have always shown that personality traits that are based on the Big Five (BF) factor model (in particular openness and conscientiousness where conscientiousness was the most powerful predictor across the secondary and tertiary levels followed by openness) contribute to the prediction of student success above and beyond intelligence. The BF are five important factors that are used to describe human personality and behavior, and it is indicated to capture most of individual’s daily differences in behavioral patterns and performance in many domains (Babakhani 2014;...

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  1. College of Information Technology, UAE University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Nabeel Al-Qirim, Mohamad Adel Serhani & Marton Gergely

  2. College of Business Administration, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait

    Kamel Rouibah

  3. College of Engineering, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Ashraf Khalil

  4. Department of Information Systems, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Ali Tarhini

  5. Faculty of Business, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan

    Mahmoud Maqableh

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Al-Qirim, N. et al. (2020). Innate Abilities and Learning in Higher Education. In: Tatnall, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Education and Information Technologies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60013-0_220-1

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