Assessment practice in enterprise education
International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research
ISSN: 1355-2554
Article publication date: 30 January 2009
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to introduce current debates on assessment practice in higher education and to explore educational research on assessment.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper progresses by exploring a number of outcomes and highlights their role in helping one to understand the potential reasons for engaging in enterprise education. The paper then applies this outcomes framework to assessment practice. It does so by reporting a series of focus groups undertaken at the International Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference in 2005.
Findings
The focus groups engaged over 40 entrepreneurship and small business academics in a brainstorming exercise, which explored forms of assessment that could be used to meet particular outcomes in enterprise education. These results are presented according to different potential entrepreneurial outcomes.
Originality/value
The concluding part of the paper categorises these practices to develop and present the views of the participants and it provides a detailed analysis of assessment practice in enterprise education.
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Citation
Pittaway, L., Hannon, P., Gibb, A. and Thompson, J. (2009), "Assessment practice in enterprise education", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 15 No. 1, pp. 71-93. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552550910934468
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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