Personality Pad: Personal Research & Development

Personality Pad is an online tool for personal research and development designed and built (with help) by Jesse Pappas as part of his doctoral work at UVA. You will use Personality Pad during the self-analysis portion of The Fast Change Project (Week One).

We use a unique multisource feedback platform (www.PersonalityPad.org) (developed by JMU faculty Jesse Pappas, Morgan Benton, and Eric Pappas, under NSF grants #1158728 and #933948, E. Pappas, PI). This platform is a fully automated on-line experience during which participants generate and interpret multisource feedback on their academic or behavioral performance (in our case), from anonymous evaluations summarizing multiple classmates’ external perspectives on their (the participant’s) academic performance or behaviors. This feedback is used to clarify self-development goals and to facilitate intentional change activities (Benton, et. al 2011). The platform offers multisource feedback based on a best practices organizational model. Research has shown that effective multisource feedback programs lead to greater evaluative accuracy and higher levels of participant acceptance compared to single source evaluation alone. It is also more likely to increase motivation and lead to specific developmental actions. The two primary educational goals underlying this platform in the current application are 1) facilitating individual feedback on personal values and behaviors and 2) motivating intentional personal development towards more adaptive behavior. The platform has been employed successfully in a several published research studies and can be adapted to support a wide variety of instructional and evaluative initiatives.

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Benton, M., Pappas, J., and Pappas, E. "WordPress+Qualtrics: A Plugin Supporting Research and New Pedagogy to Develop Personal Sustainability via 360° Evaluation." AMCIS 2011: 17th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Detroit, August 2011.

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