Empathy in Engineering Students – Initial Assessment of Student Perceived Ability
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Abstract
Empathy is an important 21st century skill for engineers, but little is known about how students self-identify their empathy skills. Forty second year systems design engineering students completed a survey containing a subset of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index focused on perspective-taking (seven statements) and empathic concern (two statements) with associated scores of 0-low empathy to 4-high empathy. There was little difference in median scores between statements. However, there was considerable variation between individual student responses. For perspective-taking scores, individual scores ranged from 11 to 28 out of 28. For empathic concern scores, individual scores ranged from 0 to 8 out of 8. There was no significant correlation between perspective-taking and empathic concern scores (rs = 0.280, p =0.084). This suggests a wide range in individual ability that may differ between empathy dimensions. Further research is needed using the full Interpersonal Reactivity Index on a wider diversity of engineering students.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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