Fostering and assessing soft skills of engineering students

• Autores: Teresa Redomero, Valeria Caggiano, José Luis Poza Luján, Vincenzo Antonio Piccione
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 35, no. 6 (Parte A), 2019, págs. 1656-1666
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents and discusses the results of a research project aiming at assessing the achievement of soft skills. To measureand assess their level, a standard questionnaire was used. The test was carried out with two different groups of students, or recentlygraduated, in the field of engineering as well as in the field of education. The total number of participants has been 489. Thisallowed us to make a comparative analysis in order to detect specific engineering soft skills. The research project was fostered bythe idea that present changes ask the higher education systems to re-think and re-design the pedagogical approaches to bothdidactics and to the objectives of didactics at all levels, university curricula included. In this paper the analysis of data collectedwithin academic settings is reported, with the aim of demonstrating that attention must be concentrated within all educational,training, scholastic levels.