The Assessment of Entrepreneurship Education

Abstract

<jats:p> The past twenty years have witnessed an enormous growth in the number of entrepreneurship courses at different educational levels. Nevertheless, there is still little uniformity in content and approach among courses and the research on entrepreneurship education remains sparse. So far, it has addressed topics such as course contents, pedagogical techniques, audience characteristics, teaching objectives, intended results, and so on. There is a need for much more research on methodologies for measuring entrepreneurship education effectiveness. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the development of a general conceptual framework for assessing entrepreneurship education. </jats:p>

New venture creation – the influence of entrepreneurship education on students’ behavior (a literature – review based study)

“…According to research, entrepreneurship or some features and characteristics of entrepreneurship can be educated and education needs to be contemplated as one of the very important methods for developing and fostering the entrepreneurial attitudes, intents and abilities competence (Falkang and Alberti, 2000;Mitra and Matlay, 2004;Kuratko, 2005;Henry et al, 2005;Harris and Gibson, 2008;Martin et al, 2013). Because of this belief, there is lot of increase in the entrepreneurship education programs at the tertiary level in colleges and universities over the globe (Katz, 2003;Finkle and Deeds, 2001;Matlay, 2005;Kuratko, 2005).…”

Entrepreneurial Mind-Set Among Female University Students: A Study of University of Jos Students, Nigeria

“…It appears to be an unfinished debate from little uniformity concerning "How", "Who", and "What" to teach entrepreneurship with regards to its contextual and conceptual understandings since entrepreneurship education has increasingly gained the attention from academia (Falkang & Alberti, 2000;Raichaudhuri, 2005). This happens largely due to the four possible viewpoints held by different people when developing the entrepreneurship programmes, such as from the educators' viewpoints, the student-entrepreneurs, and those who design the programmes and the evaluators.…”

Examining Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education

“…Little research has been completed on entrepreneurship programming involving issues such as effective teaching methods, curriculum development and program content (Falkang and Alberti, 2000;Garavan and O'Cinneide, 1994). In 1987, McMullan and Long found that entrepreneurs' educational needs were not yet well understood.…”

“…There has been tremendous growth in the demand for entrepreneurship education in the last three decades, accompanied by a large surge in the offering of entrepreneurial programs and courses by educational institutions and entrepreneurial agencies (see Blawatt, 1998;Falkang and Alberti, 2000;Finkle and Deeds, 2001;Garavan and O'Cinneide, 1994;Jack and Anderson, 1999;Katz, 2003;Kent, 1990;Menzies and Gasse, 1999;Vesper and Gartner, 1997). Many researchers and practitioners, such as Hynes (1996), believe that with the changing economic and business structures, and the shift to non-traditional employment, entrepreneurship will become cemented as its own field of study.…”