Relationship Between Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Mindset, and Career Readiness in Secondary Students

Abstract

Background: Career-focused education programs in the United States increasingly emphasize 21st century workplace readiness. These programs use project-based learning to develop a holistic, noncognitive skillset linked to an entrepreneurial mindset. Purpose: This study assesses the relationship between entrepreneurial mindset development and students in entrepreneurship education programs compared with other career-focused academies. Methodology/Approach: Using a quasi-experimental design, entrepreneurial mindset was measured in two matched groups of students from underserved communities at the beginning and end of the school year. Additional analyses were conducted to assess the impact of career-focused education on student outlook of career readiness. Findings/Conclusions: Students in entrepreneurship education showed an overall statistically significant increase in entrepreneurial mindset, specifically in communication and collaboration, opportunity recognition, and critical thinking and problem-solving. Moreover, there was a positive association between entrepreneurial mindset gains and perceptions of future career success. Implications: This study paves the way for more rigorous research on linkages between career-focused education and noncognitive skills and suggests that entrepreneurship education may be effective in developing noncognitive skills linked to career success.

Impact of Entrepreneurial Education, Mindset, and Creativity on Entrepreneurial Intention: Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy

“…Prior studies discussed the idea of entrepreneurial mindset in the field of psychology, especially in personality psychology research, and found that entrepreneurial mindset is positively related to self-capability (Zupan et al, 2018;Morris and Tucker, 2021). Furthermore, numerous researchers focused on the entrepreneurial mindset and its factors such as knowledge, skills, abilities, creative ideas, and attitude toward entrepreneurship (Green et al, 2020;Rodriguez and Lieber, 2020;Saptono et al, 2020) believed that the entrepreneurial mindset is associated with individual attitude and entrepreneurial action. Wardana et al (2020) discuss how entrepreneurial education enables people to have capability, providing them with understating about how to identify opportunities and develop their attitude toward entrepreneurship.…”

Review of Entrepreneurship Education Literature in Educational Contexts: Bibliometric Analysis

“…These expressions were preferred because these concepts are generally used in research on entrepreneurship education. For example, the expressions, "entrepreneurship education," and "enterprise education," are used interchangeably, and, "entrepreneurial education," includes both of them (Gibb, 2002;Hannon, 2018;Rodriguez & Lieber, 2020;Quality Assurance Agency, 2018). There was also no year limit during the literature review process for accessing articles.…”

The Examining of Entrepreneurial Intention Among Students with Entrepreneurial Education and Individual Value: Mediation Role of Human Capital

“…Entrepreneurship education is a program that is planned to understand the principles of entrepreneurship (Oosterbeek et al, 2010) so as to form a mindset (Rodriguez & Lieber, 2020) behavior and competencies (Bauman & Lucy, 2021) to predict and open business opportunities. Entrepreneurial education aims to foster an entrepreneurial spirit, increase entrepreneurial knowledge and experience (Sun et al, 2017) and change entrepreneurial behavior.…”