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Evaluating Entrepreneurship Education (PDW)

  • 1.  Evaluating Entrepreneurship Education (PDW)

    Posted 07-14-2014 11:13

    Dear Colleagues (apologies for cross-postings):


    We invite you to attend our PDW focusing on evaluating the outcomes of entrepreneurship education at AOM 2014.


    Entrepreneurship is composed of a variety of components, including cognitive, attitudinal, and behavioral ones. As a result, entrepreneurship education (EE) has developed in an ad hoc manner to meet a variety of purposes, often in tandem with one another (but sometimes not). These purposes include changes in attitudes, intentions, content knowledge, skills and abilities, and the reinforcement of entrepreneurial behaviors, among others.


    Field-level attention regarding the appropriate measurable outcomes of entrepreneurship education (EE) has been scant. This obviously makes it difficult to reliably predict the outcomes of EE interventions. Our workshop will bring together junior and senior EE scholars to discuss a number of viable, empirical methods for predicting and explaining the purported outcomes of EE. In particular, we wish to discuss the development of a reliable and valid scale for such a purpose.


    It is our hope that participants will leave with examples of measures that they can use to help improve the explanatory power of their own future research - and thus the development of the EE literature more generally.


    Title: Measuring Entrepreneurship Education: Are We Providing Value?

    Program Session #: 22

    Scheduled: Friday, Aug 1, 2014, 8:00AM - 10:00AM

    Location: Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Independence D
    Sponsor: Entrepreneurship (ENT) and     Management Education and Development (MED)

    Organizer/Chair: Jeff McNally, University of New Brunswick - Fredericton
    Chair: Benson Honig, McMaster University
    Chair: Bruce Martin, University College Dublin
    Panelist: Heiko Bergmann; U. of St. Gallen
    Panelist: Andrew C. Corbett; Babson College
    Panelist: James Fiet; U. of Louisville
    Panelist: Jerome Katz; Saint Louis U.
    Panelist: Panagiotis Piperopoulos; Newcastle U.
    Panelist: Julia Christensen Hughes; U. of Guelph
    Edgar Izquierdo, Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral


    Regards,


    Jeffrey J. McNally, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Business Administration
    University of New Brunswick - Fredericton Campus
    P.O. Box 4400, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3
    Tel.: (506) 453-5129
    Email: jmcnall1@gmail.com | jeff.mcnally@unb.ca