Chapter Five The next stage
It has proved difficult to find measures of enterprising skills and attitudes that would be appropriate for this research mainly because of the limited availability of such measures. The lack of measures to assess enterprising skills and attitudes has been recognized, for example, one of the main conclusions of the EC 'Best Procedure' project on Education and Training for Entrepreneurship (2002) was that 'the development of indicators and the collection of quantitative data in this field are still very limited.'
There are, however, some encouraging developments. For example, the ENTREVA project at the Turku School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland is currently surveying evaluation and measurement methods, tools and practices of Enterprise Education in Europe, with the intention to provide theoretical analyses and presenting the results in a database later in 2004 ( www.entreva.net). The research team is maintaining a link with this work.
The research team has drawn on this review to construct the items for the relevant questions in the pupil survey. These items have been piloted and amended as required. The research team will continue to review measures of enterprising skills and attitudes in the context of what will be required for the focused studies.
Addendum
Since 2003 the Scottish Executive has commissioned other research projects related to the evaluation of its Determined to Succeed strategy which have focussed on the potential to measure entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours. The findings from these projects will be published separately during 2006
| Responsibility | seeing opportunities | initiative | self confidence | perseverance | willing to accept challenge | risk taking | decision making | learning from mistakes | competition | innovation | asking advice | target setting |
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Enterprising Infants (Careers Scotland) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not specific | not specific | yes | yes | not covered | yes | yes | yes |
Go for Enterprise (Careers Scotland) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not specific | yes | yes | yes | not covered | yes | yes | yes |
Get into Enterprise (Careers Scotland) | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not specific | yes | yes | yes |
Changemaker | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes | not specific | not covered | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes |
Work related learning at Key stage 4 | not specific | not covered | not specific | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes |
Earn and Learn evaluation | not covered | yes | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes | yes | not covered | yes | yes | yes |
Halifax plc | not covered | not covered | yes | yes | not specific | not covered | yes | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes |
Employability Skills toolkit | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | not specific | not covered | yes | not covered | yes |
Pathways to Enterprise | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not covered | yes | yes | yes | not covered | yes | not covered | yes |
Kingston University research | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not covered | yes | yes | yes |
Entrepreneurial Spirit | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | not specific | not specific |
Self assessments of participants on enterprise training courses | yes | yes | yes | yes | not covered | not covered | yes | yes | yes | not covered | yes | not covered | yes |