The Impact of Environment and Individual Personality on Top-notch Undergraduates' Learning
Based on the survey data from experimental classes in 21 colleges,it found that personality had a significant influence on learning,but the college characteristics could change the direction and degree of the associations between personality and learning;learning was the outcome interacting by personality and environment;furthermore,the environment of experimental classes played the role mainly by the two personality factors of extraversion and agreeableness;and,there were no effects of college environment on openness.Most of educational reforms in experimental classes had a significant effect on undergraduates,but mainly influenced the surface learning approaches and academic achievement,not on the deep learning approaches.Therefore,it should promote the quality of top-notch undergraduates' learning,especially to satisfy the need of openness.