Title: Evaluation of entrepreneurship education: behaviour performing or intention increasing?

Authors: Alain Fayolle

Addresses: Professor and Head of the Entrepreneurship Research Chair, E.M. Lyon, Associate Professor INP Grenoble Researcher in Management Sciences at C.E.R.A.G., Grenoble, France

Abstract: We are suggesting new approaches in assessing the Entrepreneurship Teaching Programme (ETP). They are based on the theory of planned behaviour which could allow us to measure, under the influences of independent variables related to ETP, attitude changes towards the entrepreneurial behaviour, attitude changes in relation to subjective norms, attitude changes concerning perceived entrepreneurial behaviour control and finally, changes in entrepreneurial intentions. The main research article idea is to consider that it is expected and also feasible to design a dynamic tool using the theory of planned behaviour to assess the ETP and so to measure variations on entrepreneurial intention throughout the education process.

Keywords: entrepreneurship education; entrepreneurship teaching; planned behaviour theory; entrepreneurial intention; evaluation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJESB.2005.006072

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 2005 Vol.2 No.1, pp.89 - 98

Published online: 30 Jan 2005 *

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