ERIC Number: EJ1122158
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Aug
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Effectiveness of Early Entrepreneurship Education at the Primary School Level: Evidence from a Field Research in Morocco
Hassi, Abderrahman
Citizenship, Social and Economics Education, v15 n2 p83-103 Aug 2016
The present research is designed to identify the appropriate and relevant objectives that need to be pursued through entrepreneurial activities targeting elementary school children. It assesses the effectiveness of early entrepreneurship education. To do so, children aged 11 and 12 attended an entrepreneurial program and completed two versions of the same questionnaire before and after the program. We measured the development of three outcome sets of skills: non-cognitive entrepreneurial skills, cognitive entrepreneurial skills, and intentions to become an entrepreneur. The change in the dependent variable (the three sets of skills) is measured by the difference in this scale between using paired-sample t-test. Gender and parents' occupation were controlled for. The findings of this study confirm that late childhood (11-12 years old) seems to be the adequate period in order to develop self-efficacy, a non-cognitive skill required to become an entrepreneur. Nonetheless, cognitive entrepreneurial skills and entrepreneurial intentions did not change after the program.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Elementary School Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Evidence, Pretests Posttests, Behavioral Objectives, Relevance (Education), Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Self Efficacy, Likert Scales, Predictor Variables, Locus of Control, Thinking Skills, Intention, Questionnaires, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Significance
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Morocco
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