Measuring Student Transformation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs
Author
Source
Education Research International
Issue
Vol. 2017, Issue 2017 (31 Dec. 2017), pp.1-12, 12 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2017-04-18
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
12
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
This article describes how to measure student transformation primarily within a university entrepreneurship degree program.
Student transformation is defined as changes in knowledge (“Head”), skills (“Hand”), and attitudinal (“Heart”) learning outcomes.
Following the institutional impact model, student transformation is the primary goal of education and all other program goals and aspects of quality desired by stakeholders are either input factors (professors, courses, facilities, support, etc.) or output performance (number of startups, average starting salary, % employment, etc.).
This goal-setting framework allows competing stakeholder quality expectations to be incorporated into a continuous process improvement (CPI) model when establishing program goals.
How to measure these goals to implement TQM methods is shown.
Measuring student transformation as the central focus of a program promotes harmony among competing stakeholders and also provides a metric on which other program decisions (e.g., class size, assignments, and pedagogical technique) may be based.
Different stakeholders hold surprisingly different views on defining program quality.
The proposed framework provides a useful way to bring these competing views into a CPI cycle to implement TQM requirements of accreditation.
The specific entrepreneurial learning outcome goals described in the tables in this article may also be used directly by educators in nonaccredited programs and single courses/workshops or for other audiences.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Gedeon, Steven A.. 2017. Measuring Student Transformation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs. Education Research International،Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1155174
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Gedeon, Steven A.. Measuring Student Transformation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs. Education Research International No. 2017 (2017), pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1155174
American Medical Association (AMA)
Gedeon, Steven A.. Measuring Student Transformation in Entrepreneurship Education Programs. Education Research International. 2017. Vol. 2017, no. 2017, pp.1-12.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1155174
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1155174