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Record W7117921007 · doi:10.47405/mjssh.v10i12.3692

Measuring Empathy Among Secondary School Teachers in Sabah: A Quantitative Study

2025· article· W7117921007 on OpenAlex
Fung Lan Yong, Florence Chuah, Chung Jin Jong, Stanley Missun, Loreta Ling Ling Uie, Ming Ha Lee

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Bibliographic record

VenueMalaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCreative Drama in Education
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEmpathyWilcoxon signed-rank testSchool teachersDescriptive statisticsTest (biology)Quality (philosophy)

Abstract

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Teacher empathy is one of the most important attributes of effective pedagogy because it influences the quality of teacher-student interactions. The purpose of the study was to examine the empathy among secondary school teachers in Sabah, Malaysia. It aimed to determine (1) the level of empathy among teachers, (2) if there were any significant differences in perceived empathy based on gender, age, and job experience, and (3) if any of the empathy items were significantly different from the hypothesized value of 3.5. The Toronto Empathy Questionnaire was administered to a sample of 69 teachers from the Kota Kinabalu area on Google Forms. Data were subsequently transferred onto a spreadsheet and analyzed by using SPSS 26.0. First, descriptive statistics indicated that a majority of Sabahan teachers tend to have an average level of empathy. Second, the t-test revealed significant differences in perceived empathy by way of age and job experience at p < .05. Third, the Wilcoxon signed rank test showed that 14 of the empathy items were significantly different from the hypothesized value at p < .001, with only one item being significantly different at p < .05. In light of the findings, some recommendations were made on ways to enhance teacher empathy in Sabah, Malaysia.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesScience and technology studies
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.179
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.004
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.077
GPT teacher head0.319
Teacher spread0.242 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it