Predictive Analysis of the Effects of Personality Traits on an Academic Program

The choice of academic program is a crucial selection as this decision plays a major role in enhancing opportunities in career path. Young adolescents often experience indecisions while choosing their academic major, which may lead to uncertainty in future. Therefore, to assist students to find the right field of study, several researches related to personality dynamics have been conducted in recent years to determine correlation between academic fields and personalities of students and the result showed evident association. Consequently, this increases the productivity and success rate in comparison. This study determines the differences amongst the students of three popular academic programs in Bangladesh and envisage the appropriate academic choice for the prospective students by analyzing their personality traits. For this study, we have collected data from a total of 135 participants. We used students’ Big5 Personality Factors (Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, Emotional Stability, and Conscientiousness), and academic information to develop the prediction model. Using Gaussian Classifier along with 10-fold cross-validation method, we have achieved an accuracy of 91.1%. The findings of this study demonstrate that the proposed framework has a great potential in assisting prospective students to make an informed decision to determine the suitable higher study options while increasing academic motivation ratio.