Author(s): Chanaz Gargouri, Mary Kate Naatus
Finding a well-paying job that actually require a degree is and will remain the most challenging task for today’s young graduates. One of the solutions that the literature suggested is to encourage college graduate students to start their own businesses. The focus of our research is on Entrepreneurship Education (EE) and the purpose of the study was to examine students ‘attitude in relation to entrepreneurship education. This paper incorporates data gathered using the EAO (Entrepreneurial Attitudes Orientation), at the beginning and end of a hybrid-formatted entrepreneurship course, taken by students with varying degrees of interest in starting and running a business or becoming an entrepreneur. The EAO tool included questions that assess achievement, innovation, personal control and self-esteem. Our research provided a useful approach for assessing student learning outcomes in entrepreneurship education and encourages the development of “cultification” that would include innovative assignments and activities to be incorporated into entrepreneurship classes that would specifically help to develop entrepreneurial attitudes and an entrepreneurial mindset as part of the course syllabus and intended outcomes.