Abstract: Escalating demand for emerging IS personnel and a rapidly changing technological environment currently challenge many academic institutions attempting to attract, retain, and properly prepare the next generation of IS professionals. While in some instances attractive salaries and increased recruiting have attracted more students to the major, many academic programs still struggle with retaining and properly educating tomorrow’s IS employees. With that in mind, this study is designed to take a fresh look at today’s IS student in an attempt to identify some of the more significant factors related to success in the field. Specifically, factors related to personality, creativity, and other student attributes are studied to determine their relationship to a student’s success in the IS major. Results of the effort indicate that while personality type does play a role in the success of students, the aspects of creativity studied here are not significantly related to achievement. Additional analyses provide insight into other characteristics that are related to academic achievement or success in the study of information systems.

Keywords: IS students, Personality, Creativity, Achievement

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Recommended Citation: Hignite, M. A., Satzinger, J. W., & Margavio, T. M. (1999). Correlated Factors of Success: Personality, Creativity and Academic Achievement Among IS Students. Journal of Information Systems Education, 10(3-4), 12-20.